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: rite-aid-corporation.
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.
FOO
33 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
5 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
5 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
3 filings
$630K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
2 filings
$300K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$300K 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.
114th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016
11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 471114th CongressEnsuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 592114th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 314114th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 483114th CongressEnsuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 20169 filingsthrough 2016
S. 776114th CongressMedication Therapy Management Empowerment Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1735115th CongressCommunity Empowerment for Mitigated Properties Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 592115th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 109115th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 793114th CongressEnsuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1285113th CongressTo amend the Controlled Substances Act to make any substance containing hydrocodone a schedule II drug.7 filingsthrough 2013
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.
Rite Aid Corporation
Covered position: Staff, Rep Study Cmte and Energy & Comm Cmte
40 filingsthrough 2022
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff & Leg Asst., Sen. John Ensign ; ; Legislative Aide, Sen. Richard Bryan ; ; Legislative Corresp., Sen. Richard Bryan40 filingsthrough 2022
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC39 filingsthrough 2024
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLC37 filingsthrough 2024
Bradley MolletCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff & Research Assistant, Sen. Tim Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Matheson; Legislative Director, Rep. Betsy Markey.30 filingsthrough 2024
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 Biggert26 filingsthrough 2021
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th ; ; Ranking Member, House Ways and Means Committee ; ; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation24 filingsthrough 2018
James PericolaSeward Square Group18 filingsthrough 2024
Andrew D EskinDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Bryan18 filingsthrough 2013
Robert DiamondCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, President Barack Obama.14 filingsthrough 2024
George PouliosRite Aid CorporationCovered position: Chief of Staff and Legislative Assistant, Rep. McMorris Rodgers; Chief of Staff, Rep. Herrera Beutler; Legislative Director, Rep. Jordan14 filingsthrough 2019
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Smith12 filingsthrough 2016
Jim GottliebCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Dir./Gen. Counsel, House Gov Ops Cmte11 filingsthrough 2016
John MartinCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Principal Associate Commissioner, FDA; Legislative Director, Sen. Tom Cotton; Legislative Assistant; Sen. Tom Cotton; Legislative Assistant, Representative Tom Cotton.7 filingsthrough 2025
Kyle NevinsCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader ; ; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor & Rep. Roy Blunt ; ; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt7 filingsthrough 2014
Steven R PhillipsDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Jesse Helms6 filingsthrough 2012
John CosterRite Aid Corporation4 filingsthrough 2008
Sarah DonovanDla Piper LLP (US)2 filingsthrough 2013
Kristen RatcliffDla Piper LLP (US)2 filingsthrough 2013
Gary J KleinDla Piper LLP (US)2 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey CarrollCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Director House Energy and Commerce Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Frank Pallone.1 filingthrough 2024
