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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
60 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 53 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5855113th CongressTo require a report on procurement supply chain vulnerabilities within the Department of Defense.7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3216113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3487115th CongressTo amend section 1332 of title 28, United States Code, to provide that the requirement for diversity of citizenship jurisdiction is met if any one party to the case is diverse in citizenship from any one adverse party in the case.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kevin F KellyVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Projects Director, Senator Barbara Mikulski29 filingsthrough 2016
Kevin F KellyClark Hill, PLCCovered position: Chief Counsel/Floor Assistant, Sec. of the Democratic Conference, Chief Clerk/Maj. Staff Dir., Senate VA/HUD Appropriations Subcomm.24 filingsthrough 2022
Lawrence SpiveyAlpine Group Partners, LLC. Professional Staff, Senate Appropriations Committee
The filings
The 20 most recent of 97 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: smiths-group.
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.
50 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
14 filings
$420K on those filings
Torts
TOR
14 filings
$320K on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
8 filings
$330K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$110K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$90K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
2 filings
$40K 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.
6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1429113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20146 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3219115th CongressMake America Secure Appropriations Act, 20185 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1429114th CongressCharitable Agricultural Research Act3 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position:
21 filingsthrough 2017
Lauren LipinClark Hill, PLCCovered position: Military Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger14 filingsthrough 2019
Jasper ThomsonClark Hill, PLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Dave Camp13 filingsthrough 2022
John Dale McmickleNorth South Government Strategies F/K/A Jdm Public Strategies, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee11 filingsthrough 2020
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates11 filingsthrough 2012
Shadi NasabzadehClark Hill, PLC9 filingsthrough 2022
Edward A. HospMaynard Nexsen PC8 filingsthrough 2018
Anne Morningstar KatzClark Hill, PLC4 filingsthrough 2019
Derek RossClark Hill, PLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Leg Assistant, Rep. Tom Cole3 filingsthrough 2021
Jennifer HigginsChamber Hill Strategies3 filingsthrough 2017
Kevin Patrick KellyVan Scoyoc Associates3 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 9 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
