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.
Retirement
RET
54 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
53 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1994116th CongressSetting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
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: securities-industry-financial-markets-assn.
FIN
29 filings
$1.9M 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.
H.R. 1993116th CongressProviding Retirement Security to Workers in Small Businesses, Cooperatives, and Service Organizations Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
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.
20 filingsthrough 2016
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 97-99 Chief Tax Counsel, SFC-Dem Staff15 filingsthrough 2016
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)15 filingsthrough 2012
Labrenda Garrett-NelsonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)13 filingsthrough 2011
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Public Affairs - Treasury Dept.- 2001-04; Communications Dir. - President's Advisory on Fed. Tax Reform - 200512 filingsthrough 2022
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2011
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Counsel-H.Com Nat. Res. (87-08)11 filingsthrough 2010
Tim UrbanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Ryan AbrahamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Senate Finance Committee - 2004-09, SFC Tax Counsel - 2010-189 filingsthrough 2022
Holly A BodeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Sen. Aging Com., LC 1985-19937 filingsthrough 2010
Robert J SchellhasErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-02 CoS to Rep. Rob Portman6 filingsthrough 2016
Richard MeltzerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)6 filingsthrough 2009
Lauren RubinErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Legislative Director - Rep. Suzan DelBene - 2015-20185 filingsthrough 2022
Heather MeadeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2010
Daniel EsquibelErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2010
William RysErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Legislative director, Rep. Melissa Hart, 2001-07; deputy executive secretary, Office of the Executive Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department, 20072 filingsthrough 2026
Jessica CameronErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Legislative Asst., House Ways and Means Committee 2011-2014; Counsel, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan - 2017-20181 filingthrough 2026
Evan GiesemannErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Acting leg. director, Sen. Thomas Carper, 2023; staff director, Senate Finance Int'l Trade Subcomm., 2021-23; Carper tax policy advisor, 2021-23; Rep. Terri Sewell tax & econ. policy advisor, 2019-21; Rep. Mark Pocan, legislative ass't, 2013-191 filingthrough 2024
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 01-11 Deputy CoS to Rep. Tiberi1 filingthrough 2012
John Marcus TaylorErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 12 of 31 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
