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.
ROYAL KASTENS iiiSemiCovered position: Special Assistant to the Senator, Senator Edward M. Kennedy; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Paul C. Kirk; Legislative Assistant, Senate Foreign Relations Committee24 filingsthrough 2026
Taylor Wayne ShollerSemi22 filingsthrough 2017
Benjamin Elias KallenSemiCovered position: Staff Member, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The filings
The 20 most recent of 81 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: semi.
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
62 filings
$7.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
61 filings
$7.9M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
43 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
42 filings
$5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
29 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
17 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
16 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
12 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
7 filings
$700K on those filings
Banking
BAN
7 filings
$700K 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
United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021
5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7178116th CongressCHIPS for America Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3933116th CongressCHIPS for America Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20215 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4130116th CongressAmerican Foundries Act of 20205 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1468113th CongressRevitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2452111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Kimberly EkmarkSemiCovered position: Office of the U.S. Trade Representative 2019-2020; U.S Department of Commerce 2017-2019.9 filingsthrough 2022
Marc ColdironSemiCovered position: Staff Assistant, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Associate Director,Executive Office of the President; Special Assistant, U.S. Department of State;and Supervisory Business & Industry Specialist, Bureau of Industry and Security(BIS)8 filingsthrough 2026
Karl KailingSemiCovered position: Staff Assistant/Director of Correspondence/Legislative Assistant -- Congressman Mark E. Souder (2001-2004)8 filingsthrough 2020
Jay ChittooranSemi8 filingsthrough 2019
Geoff LaneSemi7 filingsthrough 2022
Victoria HadfieldSemi6 filingsthrough 2010
Joseph Gary LaiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sp. Asst. to POTUS for Leg Affairs; LD Sen. Wicker; Mil. Leg. Asst. Sen Wicker; Policy Advisor Sen. Voinovich; Policy Advisor Sen. Hagel; Intern U.S. Trade and Development Agency5 filingsthrough 2025
Steven PfrangBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Rep. LaHood; Dep COS, LD, Rep. Reed; LA, LC, SA, Intern, Rep. Fossella5 filingsthrough 2025
Jennifer BrownBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Bnk. Coun. Ldr. Schumer; Tax Coun. Sen. Menendez; Econ. Coun. House Sm. Biz. Cmt.; ERISA Specialist U.S. DOL5 filingsthrough 2025
Kenneth SchramkoSemi5 filingsthrough 2009
Holten StringerVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Professional Staff, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology/ Professional Staff, Representative Frank Lucas; and Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Senator John Cornyn.4 filingsthrough 2026
Justin MccarthyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Spec. Asst to Pres for leg affairs, exec ofc of pres, jan08-dec08; asst. USTR for congress. affairs, exec. Offc of pres, jan06-dec07; asst. USTR for intergov. & pub affairs, exec offc of pres, sep05-may06; leg asst, rep Thomas w. ewing, jan96-jul98.4 filingsthrough 2020
Mary BischopingSemiCovered position: DepAsstSec,Bureau of Emerging Threats,Dept of State; DepAsstSec,Bureau ofSouth&Central Asian Affs, Dept of State;Staff Dir,Subcomm South&Central Asia,HouseForAffsComm;SrCounsel&Counsel,HouseForAffs Comm; Att-Adv,Off LegAdv, Off of Sec,Dept of State2 filingsthrough 2026
Gregory NickersonThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Dir.,Ways&Means Subcom.on Select Reven.2 filingsthrough 2009
Noushin JahanianThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Policy Advisor, Senate Democratic Policy Comm.2 filingsthrough 2009
Nancy Ellen MccarthyThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Finance2 filingsthrough 2009
Leslee Koch GilbertVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Staff Director and Counsel, Committee on Science, Space & Technology; Republican Staff Director, Committee on Science & Technology; Legislative Director, Congressman Ralph M. Hall1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 17 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
