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.
Tobacco
TOB
71 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
64 filings
$2.4M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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.
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC67 filingsthrough 2026
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.42 filingsthrough 2026
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th ; ; Ranking Member, House Ways and Means Cmte ; ; Committee Member, Joint Cmte on Taxation37 filingsthrough 2018
The filings
The 20 most recent of 71 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: rai-services-company-formerly-reynolds-american-inc.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Joseph EannelloCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Dir., Rep. Kevin Yoder; Sr. Legislative Assist., Rep. Yoder; Legislative Asst., Rep. Yoder; Legislative Corresp., Rep. Yoder; Legislative Asst., Rep. Jerry Weller; Legislative Corresp., Rep. Jerry Weller; Staff Asst., Rep. Jerry Weller.32 filingsthrough 2026
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Cong. Nick Smith20 filingsthrough 2016
CHARLES WILLIAM BOUSTANY jrCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 7th and 3rd districts; House Ways and Means Committee.17 filingsthrough 2022
Bradley MolletCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff & Research Assistant, Sen. Tim Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Matheson; Legislative Director, Rep. Betsy Markey.16 filingsthrough 2023
DEWITT T HARDIN iiiDewitt T Hardin IIICovered position: former staff to Rep. Tom Davis & Rep. Randy Cunningham9 filingsthrough 2010
James GouldCapitol Counsel LLC8 filingsthrough 2012
Tucker ShumackCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. Johnny Isakson; LA, Sen. Paul Coverdell8 filingsthrough 2012
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff & Legislative Assistant, Sen. John Ensign; Legislative Aide, Sen. Richard Bryan; Legislative Corresp., Sen. Richard Bryan.7 filingsthrough 2020
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert.7 filingsthrough 2020
David BridgesCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. John Barrasso; Tax Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed.5 filingsthrough 2026
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Cong. Mike Ross ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln1 filingthrough 2010
Jim GottliebCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV ; ; Staff Director, Senate Veterans Committee ; ; Staff Director/General Counsel, House Gov Ops Cmte1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 13 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
