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: prudential-financial.
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.
TAX
94 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Retirement
RET
37 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Banking
BAN
34 filings
$660K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$210K on those filings
Housing
HOU
4 filings
$90K on those filings
Veterans
VET
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
2 filings
$90K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
$50K 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.
8 filings
through 2020
H.R. 4173113th CongressBrownfield Redevelopment and Economic Development Innovative Financing Act of 20148 filingsthrough 2014
S. 40110th CongressNational Insurance Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2140113th CongressInsurance Capital and Accounting Standards Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1369113th CongressA bill to provide additional flexibility to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to establish capital standards that are properly tailored to the unique characteristics of the business of insurance, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1013119th CongressRetirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2155115th CongressEconomic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4510113th CongressInsurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2270113th CongressInsurance Capital Standards Clarification Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4109111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5840110th CongressInsurance Information Act of 20086 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4173112th CongressPrevent Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons and Stop War Through Diplomacy Act5 filingsthrough 2012
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:
47 filingsthrough 2026
Mary Elizabeth StantonInvariant LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. Richard Gephardt44 filingsthrough 2021
John M. HaddowUpstream ConsultingCovered position: Principal38 filingsthrough 2020
Benjamin TurnerPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. John Delaney; Legislative Assistant/Legal Counsel, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Himes; Legislative Aide, Rep. Joe Courtney35 filingsthrough 2022
Jennifer ReadPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs14 filingsthrough 2024
Kirsten T Johnson-ObeyPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Bruce F. Vento14 filingsthrough 2013
Rex WackerleFirst Amendment Partners LLC12 filingsthrough 2025
Robert WagerRobert Wager10 filingsthrough 2011
Abigail V TruhartPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLC9 filingsthrough 2026
John M HaddowPolicy Impact Communications, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant9 filingsthrough 2010
Chris ManevalPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Republican Whip Emmer; Chief of Staff, Rep. Emmer; Legislative Director, Rep. Emmer; Senior Leg Assistant, Rep. Forbes; Leg Assistant, Rep. Forbes; Leg Aide, Rep. Forbes; Staff Assistant, Rep. Forbes8 filingsthrough 2026
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Diane Black; Deputy Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Director Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Committee7 filingsthrough 2019
Michael J EgingUpstream ConsultingCovered position: Principal7 filingsthrough 2014
John Drew HiattPolicy Impact Communications, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director for the Small Business Committee7 filingsthrough 2010
Stephen NewtonPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Romney; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Romney; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Romney; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Kennedy; Research Assistant, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship6 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 26 of 37 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
