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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
24 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
18 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4276118th CongressAmerican Worker and Trade Competitiveness Act1 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20251 filingthrough 2024
Sarah HeltonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House of Representatives27 filingsthrough 2026
Lucia AlonzoMichael Best Strategies LLC22 filingsthrough 2026
Erik Michael BerdyMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Legislative Affairs; Legislative Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army; Deputy Military Legislative Assistant, Senate14 filingsthrough 2026
Alexander AngelsonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, White House Legislative Affairs
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: schott-north-america-inc-and-affiliate-formerly-schott-north-america-inc.
18 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$160K 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.
118th Congress
Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Reform Act
1 filingthrough 2024
S. 4638118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20251 filingthrough 2024
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.
13 filingsthrough 2025
Denise BodeMichael Best Strategies LLC13 filingsthrough 2023
Patrick Lannin FirthMichael Best Strategies LLC13 filingsthrough 2023
Brett EwerMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, Senate11 filingsthrough 2026
Edgar VazquezMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Legislative Intern, Office of Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23)5 filingsthrough 2026
Tami Jackson BucknerMichael Best Strategies LLC5 filingsthrough 2023
Lewis PolayMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House of Representatives5 filingsthrough 2023
Emily Jean GreenMichael Best Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2023
Elizabeth LarrabeeMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, house of Representatives3 filingsthrough 2024
Michael DanklerMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, House of Representatives3 filingsthrough 2022
Nikhil DhingraMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House of Representatives2 filingsthrough 2022
Olivia Paige ImhoffMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Associate Director, Executive Office of the President2 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 10 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
