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.
Government Issues
GOV
44 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
41 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1646115th CongressCertainty in Enforcement Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 548114th CongressCertainty in Enforcement Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg cnsl to Rep Northup, 1999; leg cnsl to Rep Inglis, ; ; 1997-99; legal intern to Spkr Gingrich46 filingsthrough 2026
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg ; ; Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14 ; ; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997- ; ; 04; Leg Cnsl, Sen Leahy, 1993-9624 filingsthrough 2021
Francine E FriedmanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld11 filingsthrough 2019
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 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: professional-background-screeners-association.
LBR
18 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
8 filings
$480K on those filings
Education
EDU
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$170K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$110K 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.
S. 1014117th CongressFirst Step Implementation Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 1168114th CongressNative American Children's Safety Act1 filingthrough 2015
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:
7 filingsthrough 2019
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern5 filingsthrough 2020
Matthew Coates ThomasAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff asst (and intrn), ofc of Sen Bill Nelson, 2006-085 filingsthrough 2016
Richard CoppolaAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intern, Rep. Himes (Aug 17 - Dec 17); Intern, Sen. Blumenthal (Jan 18 - Mar 18)4 filingsthrough 2025
Peter RowanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intern, Rep. Peter King (Jan 2020-Mar 2020); Intern, Rep. Andrew Garbarino (Feb 2021-Mar 2021).3 filingsthrough 2024
Virgil MillerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Policy Fellow, Rep. Edolphus Towns, Aug06 - Feb07; Prof Staff Mber, Commit on Eng and Com, Feb 07 - Jan 11; Health Policy Advisor, Rep. John D. Dingell, Jan 09 - Jan 11; CoS, Rep. Cedric Richmond, Jan 11 - Mar 19.3 filingsthrough 2019
William StamperAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg staff member, Sen. Hagerty (Jan 21 - Dec 23); Staff member, Sen. Alexander (May 19 - October 19)2 filingsthrough 2024
Kyle William PerelAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2022
Christina HaleyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2019
Zach DeatherageAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sr. Leg. Asst. & Leg. Dir., Rep. Stefanik (2/23-1/25); Leg. Asst., Rep. Hinson (1/21-2/23); Leg. Cor., Leg. Aide, & Leg. Asst., Rep. Ralph Abraham (6/19-1/21); Intern & Staff Asst., Rep. Steve Womack (6/18-6/19); Intern, Sen. Joni Ernst (7/16-8/16).1 filingthrough 2026
Sean D'ArcyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2022
Lauren B O'BrienAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2018
