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.
ROBERT BABCOCK jrAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant/Legislative Assistant, Congressman Steve King; Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison; Regional Administrator, GSA Greater Southwest Region.14 filingsthrough 2026
Arthur Warren ScottAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Cornyn; Intern, Senator Cornyn; Intern, Senator Wicker11 filingsthrough 2026
John SheaAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant/ Press Assistant, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Steven Fincher8 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: puerto-verde-holdings-llc.
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.
16 filings
$1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$840K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
12 filings
$820K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
10 filings
$410K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$210K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$90K 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.
118th Congress
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4665118th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8771118th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8773118th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2043118th CongressDepartment of State Authorization Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2438118th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2625118th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4779119th CongressNational Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4797118th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4928118th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Ankit DesaiAbi AssociatesCovered position: Legis. Correspondent, Sen. Joe Biden; Staff Assistant, Sen. Frank Lautenberg
7 filingsthrough 2024
Steve ChartanAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: *House contacts made only*7 filingsthrough 2024
Samantha DravisAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Sr. Counsel, Assoc. Admin for Policy, EPA; Assoc. Dir., Office of Pol. Affairs, White House George W. Bush, Leg. Asst., Dan Lungren; Comm Intern, Sam Brownback; Exec. Asst. John Peterson.7 filingsthrough 2024
Ankit DesaiLilette AdvisorsCovered position: Legis. Correspondent, Sen. Joe Biden; Staff Assistant, Sen. Frank Lautenberg5 filingsthrough 2025
Robert Babcock, Jr.Clark Hill, PLCCovered position: Regional Administrator, GSA Greater Southwest Region; Senior Legislative Assistant/Legislative Assistant, Congressman Steve King; Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.4 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew Raebel MillerClark Hill, PLCCovered position: Leg.Correspondent/Special Asst/Staff Asst - Sen. Ted Cruz2 filingsthrough 2022
Grace BodwellAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Asst., Rep. Alex Mooney1 filingthrough 2025
Melyssa PerezAxadvocacy Government Relations1 filingthrough 2023
Kevin F KellyClark Hill, PLCCovered position: Chief Counsel/Floor Asst, Sec of the Democratic Conference; Chief Clerk/Maj Staff Dir, Senate VA/HUD Approps Subcomm1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
