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: society-of-chemical-manufacturers-affiliates.
$280K
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.
TRD
56 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
51 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
44 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
39 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
29 filings
$631K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
21 filings
$290K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
20 filings
$851K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
20 filings
$242K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
17 filings
$90K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$459K 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.
119th Congress
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4007113th CongressProtecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 942112th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2996111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3209111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5577110th CongressChemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act2 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.
Matthew MoedritzerSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates9 filingsthrough 2020
Brittany MountjoySociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates8 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey D MarkeyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative Doc Hastings.7 filingsthrough 2026
Justine FreislebenSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates7 filingsthrough 2015
Johanna MorsbergerSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & AffiliatesCovered position: staff asst., legislative asst,legislative correspondent7 filingsthrough 2013
C. Elizabeth O'NealSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & AffiliatesCovered position: Staff assistant for Senator Cornyn6 filingsthrough 2014
Alexis RudakewychSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & AffiliatesCovered position: staff asst.,legislative asst,legislative correspondent5 filingsthrough 2013
Sarah MechumSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates4 filingsthrough 2008
MICHAEL F KENNEDY jdSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates3 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey GunnulfsenSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates3 filingsthrough 2008
Samuel WhitehornElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee.2 filingsthrough 2025
Robert William ChamberlinElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Assistant Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.2 filingsthrough 2025
Bret ManleyElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Rodney Davis 19-22; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jeff Denham 17-18; Legislative Director, Rep. Jeff Denham 11-17; Financial Services Policy Advisor, Rep. Gary Miller 08-10; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Gary Miller 07-08.2 filingsthrough 2025
Michelle RichardsonElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Roger Wicker.2 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth Ann StevulakSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates2 filingsthrough 2010
Jenn KleinSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates1 filingthrough 2026
Javier Barajas MartinezSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates1 filingthrough 2026
Lynne Jones BatshonSociety of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 8 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
