43 filings from 4 registrants · 2009–2020 · latest filed Aug 6, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$740K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$740K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
31 filings
$620K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20173 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Gordon Hunter Hunter BatesRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell ; ; Legal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell ; ; Chief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee16 filingsthrough 2016
Susan LentAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Cnsl to Surface Trnsp Subcomm, H Comm on Trnsp & Infrastruc, 1995-Aug 9813 filingsthrough 2020
Gordon Hunter BatesAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Sen. McConnell, 2000-02; Legal Cnsl, Sen. McConnell, 1999-00; Chief Cnsl, Senate Rules Committee, 1997-99.8 filingsthrough 2019
Husein Cumber
The filings
The 20 most recent of 43 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: r-j-corman-railroad-group.
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.
1 filing
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.
Lauren O'BrienRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis5 filingsthrough 2015
Leanna CumberH.A. Cumber & Company, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Bill Nelson3 filingsthrough 2012
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2018
Chase W HienemanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Int, Sen. McConnell, May-June 2010.2 filingsthrough 2017
G Hunter BatesBates Capitol Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellLegal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellChief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee2 filingsthrough 2012
Michael RossettiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2018
Chase Watson HienemanRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Itern, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 10 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
