14 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2024 · latest filed Mar 29, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$600K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$600K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
14 filings
$600K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$500K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20214 filingsthrough 2020
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: regenesis.
9 filings
$370K 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.
116th Congress
The Heroes Act
3 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.
Covered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)
11 filingsthrough 2022
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2022
Kelley Julia WilliamsForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2022
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)10 filingsthrough 2022
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind (1999-2002)6 filingsthrough 2024
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2014-2016); Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2008); Staff Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2005)4 filingsthrough 2022
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002)1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
