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: qualcomm-incorporated.
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
137 filings
$114.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
129 filings
$151.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
126 filings
$134.1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
92 filings
$138.7M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
79 filings
$88.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
77 filings
$66.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
45 filings
$75.1M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
40 filings
$72M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
33 filings
$56.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
32 filings
$54.9M 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.
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
16 filingsthrough 2018
S. 153114th CongressI-Squared Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act15 filingsthrough 2014
S. 866113th CongressPatent Quality Improvement Act of 201314 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2131113th CongressSKILLS Visa Act13 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 201313 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act13 filingsthrough 2014
S. 19115th CongressMOBILE NOW Act12 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3666116th CongressSTRONGER Patents Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 108116th CongressTargeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act of 201910 filingsthrough 2020
S. 88115th CongressDIGIT Act10 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.
Dla Piper LLP (US)
Covered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Jesse Helms
51 filingsthrough 2021
Alice TornquistQualcomm, Incorporated51 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew ShapankaCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Rules & Administration.43 filingsthrough 2026
Jack SchenendorfCovington & Burling LLP43 filingsthrough 2018
William MoschellaBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: PrincAssocDepAG DOJ,AsstAG DOJ,ChfLegCouns/Parliam Hs Judic Comm,ChfInvestigativeCouns Hs Judic Comm,GC Hs Rules Comm,Couns Hs Judic Comm,Couns/Parliam Hs Gov Rel Comm,SrLegAsst Rep Frank Wolf,LegAsst Rep Frank Wolf,ComputerSysManager Rep Frank Wolf40 filingsthrough 2026
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Communications Director, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Press Secretary, Congressman Joseph Pitts; Special Assistant, Congressman Joseph Pitts37 filingsthrough 2026
NORMAN FREDERICK LENT iiiArentfox Schiff LLP32 filingsthrough 2021
Steve CroutQualcomm, IncorporatedCovered position: Leg. Dir. - Offc of Congressman Bill Richardson, Sr Advisor - US Dept of Energy-Congress Affairs, Assoc Director - US Dept of Energy-Offc of Policy31 filingsthrough 2018
Stephen RademakerCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Asst. Sec., Dept. of State; Sr. Counsel/Policy Dir. for Nat'l Sec. to Senate Maj. Leader; Chief Counsel, House Select Cmte. on Homeland Sec.; Dep. Staff Dir./Chief Counsel, House Cmte. on Int'l.Relations Relations; White House Assoc. Counsel to Pres.29 filingsthrough 2026
David LugarThe Lugar Group (Fka Lugar Hellmann Group)28 filingsthrough 2018
Ralph HellmannThe Lugar Group (Fka Lugar Hellmann Group)28 filingsthrough 2018
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Director, House Rules Comm; Dep Staff Dir, House Rules Comm; General Counsel, Voting Irregularities; Prof. Staff, House Appropriations Comm; Associate Parliamentarian, US House of Reps23 filingsthrough 2022
Roderick R MckelvieCovington & Burling LLP22 filingsthrough 2013
Walker RobertsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep. COS, House Intl. Rel. Comm.; Sp. Asst. to Pres.; Policy Analyst, Senate21 filingsthrough 2026
Erskine W WellsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep COS Sen. Wicker; COS Rep. Palazzo; Leg Asst Sen Wicker; Intern Sen. Cochran21 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph Gary LaiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sp. Asst. to POTUS for Leg Affairs; LD Sen. Wicker; Mil. Leg. Asst. Sen Wicker; Policy Advisor Sen. Voinovich; Policy Advisor Sen. Hagel; Intern U.S. Trade and Development Agency21 filingsthrough 2026
Fred TurnerBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Sen. Menendez; COS, US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; COS, Rep. Hastings, Associate Staff of House Rules Committee21 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah Elizabeth ShiveCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, Sen. Debbie Stabenow Senior Counsel, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV Legislative Correspondent, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV21 filingsthrough 2026
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: WH Office of Leg. Affairs, Spec. Asst. to the President; Senator Michael F. Bennet, Leg. Director; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Sen. Maria Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel20 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 89 of 143 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
