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.
Erik Robert OlsonVenn StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff for Rep. Ron Kind45 filingsthrough 2026
Mark DedrickSummit Strategies Government Affairs LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, LD Rep. Darlene Hooley 1997; 2002-2006; Staff Assistant, LA Rep. Tony Hall 1998-2001; LA Rep. Rush Holt 2001-2002.35 filingsthrough 2023
James A BeallSummit Strategies Government Affairs LLC35 filingsthrough 2023
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: rail-security-alliance.
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.
68 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
42 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
36 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
14 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$520K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$110K 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.
H.R. 838119th CongressA PLUS Act2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20202 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 8082116th CongressFreight RAILCAR Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Joshua Nunn TharringtonVenn Strategies
24 filingsthrough 2026
Austin Tyler RobertsVenn StrategiesCovered position: Lead Staff Advisor on health policy, tax, trade and financial service matters for Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Staff Assistant for Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Research Assistant for Congressmen Joe Barton (R-TX) and Roy Blunt (R-MO)18 filingsthrough 2022
John HebertVenn StrategiesCovered position: Staff Assistant for Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL)10 filingsthrough 2019
Jessica Layson DavisVenn StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA)10 filingsthrough 2017
Matthew ScottVenn StrategiesCovered position: Senior Legislative Aide-Rep. Lee Zeldin(R-NY);Legislative Assistant-Rep. Lee Zeldin(R-NY);Investigative Clerk-U.S. House Committee on Ethics;Clerk on Advice and Education-U.S. House Committee on Ethics;Staff Assistant-U.S. House Committee on Ethics9 filingsthrough 2024
Andrew BariahtraisVenn StrategiesCovered position: worked in the offices of House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA)8 filingsthrough 2017
Emilia DisantoVenn StrategiesCovered position: Deputy Inspector General-US Department of State; Chief of Staff-Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General; Chief Investigative Counsel and Special Counsel-U.S. Senate Committee on Finance7 filingsthrough 2020
Benjamin SteinbergVenn StrategiesCovered position: Senior Advisor of Dept of Energy (DOE); Office Dir.-DOE; Chief of Staff-DOE; Deputy Chief of Staff-DOE, Energy Security Spec.-DOE; Deputy Staff Dir-DOE, Sr. Program Mgr, Office of the Fed Environmental Exec; Exec Office of the President6 filingsthrough 2020
Katherine FrancisVenn StrategiesCovered position: Interned for American Embassy in Moscow, State Department6 filingsthrough 2017
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS (Dec 07 - Dec 11), Press Secy (Dec 04 - Dec 07), Dep Press Secy (Dec 02 - Dec 04) to Sen Inhofe.4 filingsthrough 2026
Cara MorrowAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dept. of Commerce Intl Trade Admin., Dir. of Policy (Feb 2021-Oct. 2023); Sr. advsr, USTR, (Oct. 2023-Jan.2025).4 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel GoodsteinVenn StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff - Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)3 filingsthrough 2022
David SchwietertAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen. Comm. On Commerce, Science, & Transport., Staff Dir (13-15); Sen. Thune, Leg. Dir (07-12); Sen. Comm. On Environ. & Public Works, Waste Management SubComm., Staff Dir (05-06).1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 15 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
