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.
Kimberly EllisMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady; Deputy Executive Sec ; ; and Confidential Asst, Office of U.S. Trade Representative52 filingsthrough 2026
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference Office ; ; of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the ; ; Minority Whip; Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, ; ; Legislative Correspondent, and Administrative Assistant, ; ; Rep. Sue Myrick52 filingsthrough 2026
John MulliganMonument Advocacy Legislative Director and Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam ; ; Smith
The filings
The 20 most recent of 322 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: shell-oil-company.
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.
FUE
80 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
64 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
53 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
43 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
37 filings
$3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
21 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
20 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
17 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
15 filings
$190K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
11 filings
$930K 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.
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2184117th CongressEnd Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1298117th CongressClean Energy for America Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2118117th CongressClean Energy for America Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1129115th CongressCoast Guard Authorization Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1314114th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3431114th CongressWaterway LNG Parity Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1265112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4853112th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on Methoxycarbonyl-terminated perfluorinated polyoxymethylene-polyoxyethylene.6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 506112th CongressSafe Schools Improvement Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Covered position:
52 filingsthrough 2026
CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jrMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; Consultant, ; ; Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, Assistant ; ; Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles; Counsel, Senate ; ; Committee on the Judiciary; Legislative Counsel, Senate ; ; Committee on Rules and Administration; Legislative Counsel, ; ; Senator John Warner; Outside Consultant, House Committee on ; ; Oversight; Lead Staffer Sen. Republican High Tech Task Force49 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas Allen HawksMonument Advocacy47 filingsthrough 2026
Michael PlatnerVan Ness Feldman, LLP43 filingsthrough 2024
John Parker FlynnBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: 1998-2004, Legislative Assistant and Congressional Fellow, Sen. John Breaux40 filingsthrough 2019
Rich ThomasMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Asst, ; ; and Legislative Director Rep. Bill Pascrell39 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew HowellMonument Advocacy38 filingsthrough 2022
Richard A AgnewVan Ness Feldman, LLP31 filingsthrough 2024
Stephen C FotisVan Ness Feldman, LLP31 filingsthrough 2023
CHESTER TRENT LOTT srBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator, January 1989-December 2007; US Congressman, January 1972-December 198931 filingsthrough 2018
Kent BurtonNational Environmental Strategies28 filingsthrough 2016
Marc HimmelsteinNational Environmental Strategies28 filingsthrough 2016
JOHN BREAUX jrBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (18 yrs), US Representative (2 yrs)27 filingsthrough 2016
Charles E HarpleThe Mathis Harple Group24 filingsthrough 2016
Michael E MathisThe Mathis Harple Group24 filingsthrough 2016
Matthew CuttsBreaux Lott Leadership Group23 filingsthrough 2019
LAWRENCE DUNCAN iiiMonument Advocacy22 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle NevinsHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-0620 filingsthrough 2019
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-0320 filingsthrough 2019
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06; Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-0220 filingsthrough 2019
Stuart C HallVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, U.S. Representative Richard Baker (2001-2008)18 filingsthrough 2018
David SchnittgerBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Speaker Boehner, 2006-2015; Press Secr., Rep. John Boehner 1994-2001; Communications Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce 2001-200517 filingsthrough 2019
Katharine ListerMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of ; ; Commerce; Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of ; ; Staff, and Communications Director, Sen. Maria ; ; Cantwell; Communications Director, Rep. ; ; Adam Smith; Staff Assistant, Sen. John Kerry17 filingsthrough 2017
