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: sixteen-thirty-fund.
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.
41 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
29 filings
$800K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
28 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
21 filings
$8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$4.9M on those filings
District of Columbia
DOC
7 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
5 filings
$30K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$1.9M 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.
118th Congress
Affordable Insulin Now Act of 2023
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 736116th CongressAccess to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 195116th CongressAccess to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1567114th CongressGlobal Food Security Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3305118th CongressBlack Maternal Health Momnibus Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1264118th CongressSMART Prices Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1710118th CongressPerinatal Workforce Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.6 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Asst Atty Gen, DOJ ; ; General Counsel/LD, Sen Smith
Daniel SchumanSixteen Thirty FundCovered position: N/A19 filingsthrough 2022
Yvette FontenotFontenot Health Policy LLCCovered position: Deputy Director, HHS Office of Health Reform; Senior Policy Director, WH Office of Health Reform; Professional Staff, Senate Finance Committee; Professional Staff, House Energy and Commerce; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator Rockefeller18 filingsthrough 2026
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Sen Gramm18 filingsthrough 2021
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP17 filingsthrough 2021
Richard HealyHealy Consulting GroupCovered position: Staff, House Appropriations Committee; Chief Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee17 filingsthrough 2021
Ellen DoneskiPontifex Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief Tax and Economic Policy Advisor, Senator Harry Reid; Staff Director, Senate Commerce Committee, Senator Jay Rockefeller; Legislative Director, Senator Jay Rockefeller.16 filingsthrough 2026
Yvette FontenotAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Sr. Policy Dir. - WH Office of Health Reform; Prof. Staff - Sen. Finance Committee; Prof. Staff - H. Energy & Commerce Committee; Medicare Specialist - OMB; Sr. Legis. Advisor - Sen. Jay Rockefeller16 filingsthrough 2023
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator16 filingsthrough 2020
Kathleen NicholasK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Congressional and Public Affairs Intern, Natioinal Nuclear Security Administration; Staff Assistant, Senate Select Committee on Ethics15 filingsthrough 2020
Michele WymerKyle House GroupCovered position: Professional Staff; Senate Appropriations Committee11 filingsthrough 2018
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman9 filingsthrough 2021
John Byron MinorSixteen Thirty FundCovered position: N/A8 filingsthrough 2021
Robert EpplinEpplin Strategic PlanningCovered position: LD, Sen. Collins; LA Sen. Smith; Analyst, OMB Budget Review Division; Prof Staff, Senate Finance Committee; LA, Sen. Packwood.7 filingsthrough 2021
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LD, Rep Upton7 filingsthrough 2020
William C FischerPort Side Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant to Rep. Lincoln Davis6 filingsthrough 2022
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel6 filingsthrough 2021
Eli SchooleyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Jerry Moran6 filingsthrough 2021
Margaret RousseauSixteen Thirty FundCovered position: House of Representatives: Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director, Communications Director, Press Secretary5 filingsthrough 2022
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman5 filingsthrough 2019
John MchughK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman; Secretary of the U. S. Army5 filingsthrough 2018
Mia WoodardSixteen Thirty FundCovered position: Senate Select Committee Investigative Counsel; House Staff Assistant4 filingsthrough 2022
Broderick JohnsonCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary, the White House (20014-2017); Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, the White House (1998-2000)4 filingsthrough 2021
David Patrick RobertsonConfluence Government RelationsCovered position: Deputy to the Chief of Staff, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Leg. Aide & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Rockefeller4 filingsthrough 2020
Robert RabenThe Raben GroupCovered position: Asst. Attorney Gen DOJ; Counsel, House Judiciary4 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 41 of 51 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
