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.
Robert WoodBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing17 filingsthrough 2023
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies17 filingsthrough 2023
Brian BallardBallard Partners16 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 191 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: sas-institute-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.
26 filings
$780K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Education
EDU
23 filings
$640K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
20 filings
$710K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
20 filings
$180K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
19 filings
$450K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
15 filings
$370K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
12 filings
$460K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
11 filings
$370K on those filings
Insurance
INS
11 filings
$370K 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
Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020
4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2487115th CongressAgriculture Data Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 20203 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3164116th CongressMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5961115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6072115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Sylvester LukisBallard Partners
16 filingsthrough 2025
Lawren MillsIce Miller Strategies LLC16 filingsthrough 2021
John WatsonImpact Public Affairs (Formerly Massey, Watson & Hembree LLC16 filingsthrough 2020
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner15 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern15 filingsthrough 2023
Jason Benjamin Van PeltCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senior LA, LA, Staff Asst: Cong. Ed Whitfield13 filingsthrough 2020
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Vic Fazio 1987-1993.13 filingsthrough 2014
George Nicholas CaramMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Officer, Special Assistant, National Security Council; Sr. LA, LA, LC, Sr. Staff Asst, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Special Asst, Rep. C.W. Bill Young10 filingsthrough 2020
George Michael MillerThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: 5/1985-12/1985.10 filingsthrough 2014
Brandon LippsCaprock Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition & Consumer Services,USDA; Counsel & Senior Professional Staff for House Committee onAgriculture9 filingsthrough 2025
Ashlee Nicole JohnsonThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Mike Ross; Executive Assistant, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Legislative Analyst, White House Liaison, Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary, USDA; Policy Assistant, Domestic Policy Council9 filingsthrough 2023
Remy Leigh Brim MasonBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing9 filingsthrough 2023
Joseph G PenkalaCompass Strategies, LLC9 filingsthrough 2020
Richard GromlichCompass Strategies, LLCCovered position: Ret. 0-8, USCG9 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 77 of 105 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
