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.
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: principal-financial-group.
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.
121 filings
$39M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
110 filings
$37.1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
50 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
46 filings
$22.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$19.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
19 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
14 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
14 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
12 filings
$6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
10 filings
$5.7M 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.
113th Congress
Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2013
H.R. 4173114th CongressTo provide that an alien who has traveled to Iraq or Syria during the 5-year period prior to the alien's application for admission is ineligible to be admitted to the United States under the visa waiver program, and for other purposes.17 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1945113th CongressFostering Resilience to Terrorism Act of 201313 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1688115th CongressTo avoid duplicative annual reporting under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes.11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 372115th CongressCompetitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 854115th CongressRetirement Security for American Workers Act11 filingsthrough 2018
S. 695115th CongressA bill to avoid duplicative annual reporting under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes.11 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.
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-03.
48 filingsthrough 2026
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06; Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-02.48 filingsthrough 2026
Eric ShimpPrincipal Financial Group38 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan SlemrodHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Legislative Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, '17-'18, Policy Advisor, Office of the Sen. Republican Whip, '12-'17, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marco Rubio '11-'1231 filingsthrough 2026
Richard Cooper LawsonPrincipal Financial Group30 filingsthrough 2015
Patrick John O'NeillPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.28 filingsthrough 2026
Steven EichenauerPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Jack Reed28 filingsthrough 2026
Charles M BrainCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Asst. to the President, Dp.Chief Staff W&M Cmte28 filingsthrough 2019
A. J. WojciakCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Senior Legislative Aide, Rep. Earl Pomeroy28 filingsthrough 2019
Laricke BlanchardPrincipal Financial GroupCovered position: Schedule C political appointee, Deputy Director for Policy: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: 2011-2013.25 filingsthrough 2020
Beau` SchuylerCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: LD-CongTanner, LD-CongMcIntyre,SA-CongRose24 filingsthrough 2018
Heather MchughCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Chuck Schumer22 filingsthrough 2018
Jason A. LipkaPrincipal Financial Group20 filingsthrough 2017
R Lucia RiddlePrincipal Financial Group18 filingsthrough 2012
Chuck BrainPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Assistant to the President, Dep. Chief of Staff Ways & Means Committee17 filingsthrough 2023
Michael LewanBrown Rudnick LLPCovered position: CoS, Rep Solarz(88); CoS, Sen Lieberman(89-93)15 filingsthrough 2012
James N CavanaughPrincipal Financial Group13 filingsthrough 2013
Abbie SorrendinoPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Congressman Joe Morelle12 filingsthrough 2026
Anne Davey GleasonPrincipal Financial Group12 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Wayne NaglePublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Tom Udall; Chief of Staff, U.S. Representative Tom Udall; Associate Staff, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations11 filingsthrough 2022
