8 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2019 · latest filed Nov 5, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$145K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$145K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$135K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$85K on those filings
Agriculture
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Michael EspositoFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: President14 filingsthrough 2019
Nick TobenkinFederal Advocates, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2019
D MICHAEL STROUD jrFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: Depty Chief Counsel, House Homeland Security Committee; Depty Assistant Secy Legislative Affairs, Dept of Homeland Security14 filingsthrough 2019
Benjamin OdendahlFederal Advocates, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2019
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: petsmart.
AGR
3 filings
$75K on those filings
Animals
ANI
3 filings
$75K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
3 filings
$75K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Patrick AndersonFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Advisor to Representative Henry Bonilla
9 filingsthrough 2019
Christopher CarneyFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: Member of Congress6 filingsthrough 2019
Jennifer ArangioFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: National Security Council, White House5 filingsthrough 2019
Kevin Patrick TalleyFederal Advocates, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Matt Gaetz5 filingsthrough 2019
John LopezFederal Advocates, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2018
Jim KileyFederal Advocates, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2018
Victoria HonardFederal Advocates, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 6 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.