21 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2025 · latest filed Jan 16, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
Arts/Entertainment
ART
20 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3296117th CongressTo require the Secretary of Energy to establish an energy efficiency materials pilot program, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 196117th CongressNonprofit Energy Efficiency Act7 filingsthrough 2022
Janice BashfordArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Leg Dir & Chief Counsel, Rep Bass (2016-21); Interim Africa Staff Dir, House Foreign Affairs Sub (2017); Leg Dir and Chief Counsel, Rep Waters (2014); Leg Dir & Chief Counsel, Rep Jackson Lee (2011-14); Staff, Senate Comm on Small Business (2000-01)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 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-non-profit-theater-coalition.
18 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
17 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
16 filings
$1M on those filings
Education
EDU
13 filings
$830K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$800K 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.
117th Congress
Creative Economy Revitalization Act
6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2858117th CongressCreative Economy Revitalization Act6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4048118th CongressNorth American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5581117th CongressArts Education for All Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3625117th CongressEmployee Retention Tax Credit Reinstatement Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7894119th CongressTruman Scholarship Clean House Act2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 4048119th CongressPREDICT Act2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4820118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20241 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 4821118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20241 filingthrough 2023
S. 2437118th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20241 filingthrough 2023
S. 2605118th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20241 filingthrough 2023
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.
Lucas GorakArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, Rep. Ted Lieu (2019); Intern, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State (2021)10 filingsthrough 2025
VINCENT BERNARD BROWN jrArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senate Rules & Administration Comm.(2019-2021); Volunteers Coordinator, Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies(2020-2021); Extern, Federal Election Commission (2015); Extern, Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Comm. (2014)9 filingsthrough 2025
Taylor HolmesArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP4 filingsthrough 2022
Allison JarusArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: COS, Rep. Mike Quigley (2021-2024); LD, Rep. Mike Quigley (2019-2021); Sr. Policy Advisor, Rep. Mike Quigley (2016-2019); LA, Rep. Mike Quigley (2015-2016); LA, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (2013-2015);SA, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (2013); Intern, Rep. Tim Ryan (2011)2 filingsthrough 2025
Christina PoehlitzArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, Rep. Curbelo (2016); Intern, House Foreign Affairs MENA Subcommittee (2016); Intern, U.S. Embassy Bolivia, Department of State (2017)1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
