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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Bankruptcy
BNK
8 filings
$70K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$270K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4509116th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the limitation on downward attribution of stock ownership in applying the constructive ownership rules to controlled foreign corporations, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2019
Daris MeeksVenable LLPCovered position: ​House Republican Conference, Policy Director, Policy Analyst, Counsel; Representative Hensarling, Legislative Counsel; Federal Housing Finance Board, Counsel to Chairman; Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Counsel; Director of Domestic Policy, Office of the Vice President; Deputy Assistant to the President9 filingsthrough 2020
David MullonVenable LLPCovered position: ​Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Staff Director and Chief Counsel, General Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel9 filingsthrough 2020
RALPH W. HARDY jrVenable LLP8 filingsthrough 2020
Bart StupakVenable LLP
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: silver-point-capital-l-p.
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.
TRD
3 filings
$270K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$120K 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
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the limitation on downward attribution of stock ownership in applying the constructive ownership rules to controlled foreign corporations, and for other purposes.
1 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.
Covered position: U.S. Representative, 1993-2011
6 filingsthrough 2020
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak6 filingsthrough 2020
Kelly Ann ShawAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Depty. Assistant, President for International Economic Affairs, Depty Director, National Economic Council 2018-2019; Trade Counsel Committee on Ways and Means, 2016-2018; Legislative Correspondent Congressman George Nethercutt, 2004.4 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary PaulsenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl trd asst for pol, S Fin Comm, 2002-05.4 filingsthrough 2026
RANDOLPH KARL HERNDON jrCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Pat Toomey; Policy Director/Tax Counsel, Rep. Jim Renacci3 filingsthrough 2020
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, U.S. Representative Watkins3 filingsthrough 2018
David GiordanoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl Trade Policy Advsr., House Ways & Means Comm (2022-2026); Prof. Staff Mbr, House Ways & Means Comm (2019-2022); Leg. Asst., House Ways & Means Comm (2017-2019).1 filingthrough 2026
