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.
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-usa-inc.
fees reported
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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.
29 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
18 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
17 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
14 filings
$940K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$770K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
11 filings
$770K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$770K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$400K 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
CARES Act
3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20211 filingthrough 2020
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.
17 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary K OstroMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Robin Kelly14 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Kenneth HenryAcorn Consulting12 filingsthrough 2026
Courtney TaylorMindset Advocacy, LLC11 filingsthrough 2021
James Wesley KungelAcorn ConsultingCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Joe Manchin6 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah AlexanderMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Energy and Coastal Policy Advisor, Sen. Bill Cassidy; Professional Staff Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee5 filingsthrough 2026
