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.
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.
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: samsung-electronics-co-ltd.
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.
TEC
14 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Education
EDU
6 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$470K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$150K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
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.
David Skillman
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Counsel, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (2007-2019)
22 filingsthrough 2025
Scott ParvenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg asst, Rep Mavroules14 filingsthrough 2015
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld14 filingsthrough 2015
Francine E FriedmanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld13 filingsthrough 2015
CHARLIE W JOHNSON ivAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Law clrk, H Comm on Jud, May 92-Aug 9213 filingsthrough 2015
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Press Secy, Dep Press Secy to Sen Inhofe12 filingsthrough 2015
Stephen KhoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld7 filingsthrough 2015
Brian BombassaroArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: International Trade Counsel, Senate Committee on Finance (2025 and 2017-2019)6 filingsthrough 2026
William LeahyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Aug 05-Nov 066 filingsthrough 2015
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm6 filingsthrough 2015
Caitlin KovalkoskiArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Director of Leg. & Intergov. Affairs, ITA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce (2022-2025); Legislative Specialist, Office of Leg. & Intergov. Affairs, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Commerce (2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Judy Chu (2019-22)4 filingsthrough 2026
Frank SamolisSquire Patton Boggs4 filingsthrough 2018
PAUL A HOWARD iiArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Susan M. Collins4 filingsthrough 2018
Edward J. NewberrySquire Patton Boggs4 filingsthrough 2018
David SchnittgerSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Speaker Boehner, 2006-2015; Press Secr., Rep. John Boehner 1994-2001; Communications Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce 2001-20054 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 35 of 56 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
