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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
53 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Banking
BAN
20 filings
$940K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Alexander SternhellSternhell GroupCovered position: Deputy Staff Director/Sr. Policy Advisor, US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Leg. Director, Rep. James Maloney; Leg. Director, Rep. William Orton; Leg. Assistant, Rep. Marion Berry; Leg. Assistant, Rep. James Bacchus28 filingsthrough 2026
Mike AhernSternhell GroupCovered position: Legislative Asst., Rep. Ed Royce; Legislative Director, Rep. Ed Royce; Senior Professional Staffer, House Financial Services Committee; Banking Legislative Asst., Sen. Bob Corker; Transition Team, Federal Housing Finance Agency27 filingsthrough 2026
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: s-p-global-inc.
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.
TAX
7 filings
$440K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$40K 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.
Scott EckartEmergent Strategies22 filingsthrough 2025
Michael Ryan ClaunchEmergent Strategies22 filingsthrough 2025
Martin SchuhEmergent Strategies22 filingsthrough 2025
Bart StupakVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative, 1993-201121 filingsthrough 2019
Samuel OlchykVenable LLPCovered position: Legislation Counsel, Joint Committee on Taxation; Finance Counsel, Senate Finance Committee19 filingsthrough 2019
Joshua H RaymondVenable LLP12 filingsthrough 2019
Andrew OlmemVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel; Senator George Voinovich, Counsel11 filingsthrough 2017
Daris MeeksVenable LLPCovered position: House Republican Conference, Policy Director, Policy Analyst, Counsel; Representative Hensarling, Legislative Counsel; Senate Banking Committee, Counsel; Federal Housing Finance Board, Counsel to Chairman9 filingsthrough 2016
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, U.S. Rep. Wes Watkins (R-OK)7 filingsthrough 2018
Kara M. WardVenable LLP7 filingsthrough 2018
Kyle NevinsHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-066 filingsthrough 2026
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-036 filingsthrough 2026
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09;Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06;Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-02.6 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan SlemrodHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Legislative Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, '17-'18, Policy Advisor, Office of the Sen. Republican Whip, '12-'17, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marco Rubio '11-'12.6 filingsthrough 2026
Josh FinestoneVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation4 filingsthrough 2019
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak4 filingsthrough 2019
Stephen NorthrupRampy Northrup LLCCovered position: HealthPolDirector,Senate HELP Cmte;HealthPolAdv,Sen. Enzi3 filingsthrough 2016
Stacey RampyRampy Northrup LLCCovered position: LD, Rep. Eshoo; LA, Sen. Torricelli; LA, Sen. Boxer3 filingsthrough 2016
Sarah DonovanVenable LLP2 filingsthrough 2019
Morgan BevinSternhell GroupCovered position: Professional Staff Member, US House Committee on Financial Services, Rep. Patrick McHenry; Staff Assistant, US House Committee on Financial Services, Rep. Patrick McHenry; Financial Services Policy Fellow, Rep. French Hill1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 19 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
