111 filings from 10 registrants · 2008–2025 · latest filed Jan 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$3.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.3M
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.
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: sap-america.
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.
BUD
24 filings
$1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
16 filings
$365K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
14 filings
$805K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
14 filings
$565K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
12 filings
$485K on those filings
Defense
DEF
11 filings
$600K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$135K on those filings
Veterans
VET
6 filings
$305K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$245K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$240K 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.
117th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4639118th CongressFourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act2 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 5140110th CongressEconomic Stimulus Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3001110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20092 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Stephen Adam Francis
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
Covered position: 2001-11 Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Pat Tiberi
12 filingsthrough 2025
Timothy F PowersArtemis Strategies12 filingsthrough 2013
Robert Sean StienArtemis StrategiesCovered position: Counsel, Rep. Lee Terry11 filingsthrough 2014
