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.
Health Issues
HCR
45 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
28 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 55 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act7 filingsthrough 2016
Brian GriffinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: StaffAsst, DemPolicyComm; FlrAsst, MinoritySec ; ; Sr. Ldrship Advisor, Sen. Dorgan43 filingsthrough 2024
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: US Senate--Secretary for the Majority/Secretary for the Mino40 filingsthrough 2024
Daniel P MeyerThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Speaker Newt Gingrich ; ; Asst. to President,Legis.Affairs, Pres. GW Bush33 filingsthrough 2019
Katherine Winkler KeatingThe Duberstein Group Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: phrma-inc.
21 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
14 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
10 filings
$1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$760K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
7 filings
$533K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
1 filing
$100K 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.
115th Congress
American Health Care Act of 2017
3 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 849115th CongressProtecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act3 filingsthrough 2017
S. 260115th CongressProtecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act3 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 243112th CongressPatent Lawsuit Reform Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 452112th CongressMedicare Decisions Accountability Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 19117th CongressLower Costs, More Cures Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act2 filingsthrough 2019
H.J.Res. 51115th CongressApproving the discontinuation of the process for consideration and automatic implementation of the annual proposal of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board under section 1899A of the Social Security Act.2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1892115th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 469115th CongressAffordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act2 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Covered position: Chief of Staff to Congressman Joseph Crowley, House Democratic Caucus Staffer, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee Legislative Director to Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, Ways and Means Committee
21 filingsthrough 2024
Benjamin R HowardThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Deputy Asst to POTUS for WH Leg. Affairs; Deputy Dir. of WH Leg. Affairs; Dir. of House Floor Operations; Special Asst, to POTUS for WH Leg. Affairs; House Floor Asst; Staff Assistant, House Rep. Conference; Staff Assistant, WH Leg. Affairs16 filingsthrough 2025
Anne WallThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Legislative Correspondent/Floor Assistant/Office Counsel/Floor Director-Ofc of Sen. Durbin; Spec Asst/Dep. Asst to President, Ofc Leg Affairs, The White House; Counselor to the Sec Treasury; Asst. Sec Leg Affairs, Dept. Treasury15 filingsthrough 2020
Kenneth DubersteinThe Duberstein Group Inc.12 filingsthrough 2016
Steven ChamplinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: ExecFlrAsst, H. Maj. Whip; ExecDir, H.DemCauc.12 filingsthrough 2014
Anne Elliott BradburyThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Small Business Admin (8/03-5/04) Rep Charles Boustany (2/05-8/05) Dep Floor Dir, Ofc of Maj Leader (Delay/Boehner) (8/05-12/05) Dep Floor Dir, Min Leader Boehner (1/06-12/10) Floor Dir, Spkr Boehner (1/11-10/15), Spkr Ryan (10/15-10/16)11 filingsthrough 2019
Elizabeth KelleyThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Special Asst to POTUS and COS of Natl Econ Council; Asst US Trade Rep for Private Sector Engagement; COS, Sen. John Walsh; Deputy COS, Sen. Max Baucus; Exec Asst and Deputy Press Sec, Rep. Earl Blumenauer6 filingsthrough 2024
Michael BermanThe Duberstein Group Inc.6 filingsthrough 2012
Marti ThomasThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Flr Aide & Exec.Flr Asst. to Maj. Ldr Gephardt ; ; Deputy Asst Sec Tax & Budget, Treasury ; ; Acting & Asst Sec. Legis. Affrs, Treasury6 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
