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.
Sheryl CohenAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Christopher Dodd; Political Director, Senator Christopher Dodd; Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman39 filingsthrough 2026
Steven O PalmerVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: ProfStaffMember,Senate Committee on Commerce Sci & Transport17 filingsthrough 2017
Laura Morgan-KesslerVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: LegislativeCorrespondent/StaffAsst, Senator Dianne Feinstein14 filingsthrough 2017
Sarah KohnAcg Advocacy
The filings
The 20 most recent of 54 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: rural-county-representatives-of-california.
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.
37 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Banking
BAN
37 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
37 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
32 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
32 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
32 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
16 filings
$470K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
16 filings
$470K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$10K 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
H.R. 5538114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3068114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 517114th CongressSecure Rural Schools and Payment in Lieu of Taxes Repair Act3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1190114th CongressProtecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1555114th CongressForest Access in Rural Communities Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 636114th CongressFAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1647114th CongressDeveloping a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 803113th CongressWorkforce Innovation and Opportunity Act2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2014
S. 783113th CongressHelium Stewardship Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
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.
Patrick C. GrantAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committe on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman11 filingsthrough 2023
Roberto Adrian FierroAcg Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2022
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Asst. to Director for Legislative Affairs at the OMB2 filingsthrough 2017
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce2 filingsthrough 2017
Mary O'Dea Ahearn AllenAcg Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2017
Daniel G. NeumannVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation2 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 14 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
