52 filings from 2 registrants · 2012–2025 · latest filed Feb 3, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$990K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$990K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$650K on those filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$20K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1859113th CongressTax Extenders Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3521113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4679113th CongressStop Corporate Inversions Act of 20142 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Michael B LevyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Sr. Advisor to the Secretary - U.S. Treasury Dept. ; ; Dep. Under Sec./Asst. Sec.-U.S. Treasury Dept. ; ; Staff Economist-Congressional Jt. Econ. Comm ; ; Admin. Asst/Chief of Staff - Sen. Lloyd Bentsen15 filingsthrough 2015
Manuel OrtizBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP15 filingsthrough 2015
Marc LampkinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Staff/Counsel - House Education and Labor Comm14 filingsthrough 2015
Alfred MotturBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Sr. Commun. Counsel-Sen. Commerce Comm ; ; Commun. Counsel-Senate Commerce Comm ; ; Law Clerk-Federal District Court, Bangor, ME
The filings
The 20 most recent of 52 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: sony-corporation-of-america.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
through 2014
S. 2360113th CongressStop Corporate Inversions Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
7 filingsthrough 2013
Judy BlackBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Spec Asst to the President for Intergovernment Affairs7 filingsthrough 2013
Carmencita WhonderBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Staff Director-Subcom House Transport & Community Devel ; ; Minority Staff Director-Subcommittee on Economic Policy ; ; Leg. Corr.-Office of Sen. Charles Schumer5 filingsthrough 2012
Kevin D. KayesKevin KayesCovered position: Chief Counsel, Democratic Leader Harry Reid; Staff Director/Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee; Assistant Parliamentarian, US Senate; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Adam Benjamin, Jr. (D-IN)3 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
