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.
Robert D. LehmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: CoS Portman 11-15; CoS OMB 06-07; CoS USTR 05-06; CoS Rep Portman 03-05; CoS Rep Combest 93-03; LD/LA Rep Combest; Lobby Spec. House Clerk 88-8932 filingsthrough 2026
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: sinclair-broadcast-group.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
AVI
1 filing
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.
114th Congress
To exempt application of JSA attribution rule in case of existing agreements.
1 filingthrough 2015
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.
15 filings
through 2026
Patrick McfaddenSinclair Broadcast Group10 filingsthrough 2026
Robert CollinsS-3 GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Maj. Leader Eric Cantor9 filingsthrough 2019
Matt BravoS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations for Maj. Whip Steve Scalise; Prof Staff, E&C; Floor Asst to Maj. Leader Eric Cantor9 filingsthrough 2019
Todd WootenS-3 GroupCovered position: Leg Dir, Sen. Stabenow; Prof Staff Ag, ENR, Finance Committee8 filingsthrough 2019
Arjun ModyS-3 GroupCovered position: Policy Dir, US Sen Republican Policy Committee; Counsel, US Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison; Counsel, US Sen Elizabeth Dole7 filingsthrough 2019
Michaeleen Earle CrowellS-3 GroupCovered position: Did not lobby the Senate; Leg Director, Rep. Denise Majette; Leg Director, Rep. John Lewis; Chief of Staff, US Sen. Bernie Sanders6 filingsthrough 2019
Kevin CaseyS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Pol Dir, Dem Caucus; Counselor, Leg. Dir, Leg. Asst, Rep. Joseph Crowley; Staff Asst, Leg. Correspondent, Rep. Bob Weygand6 filingsthrough 2019
Philip Edward BesharaWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: Legal Fellow, Rep. Tim Ryan (14); Personal Aide, Rep. Tim Ryan (10-11); Leg. Intern, Rep. Tim Ryan (09); Leg. Intern, Sen. Voinovich (07)3 filingsthrough 2019
John ScofieldS-3 GroupCovered position: Comms Dir, House Approps; Press Sec, Rep. LoBiondo1 filingthrough 2018
Michael FerenceS-3 GroupCovered position: Dir of Strategic Development, Maj Leader Eric Cantor1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 11 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
