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.
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Max Baucus, 2001-2004.31 filingsthrough 2026
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby, Legislative Assistant,
Senator Richard Shelby, Legislative Correspondent, Senator Richard
Shelby.31 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Leg Assistant - Rep. Stupak, 1993-1994; Leg Director - Rep. Kind, 1999-2002; Chief of Staff - Rep. Kind, 2003-2009.29 filingsthrough 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate
The filings
The 20 most recent of 35 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: space-exploration-technologies-corporation.
$240K
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.
26 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
24 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$680K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$580K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
5 filings
$240K 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.
117th Congress
Strategic Competition Act of 2021
4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20204 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20204 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2474116th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20204 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2584116th CongressAn original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 8236117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8256117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4346118th CongressSmall Bank Holding Company Relief Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4346117th CongressCHIPS and Science Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20212 filingsthrough 2020
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.
28 filingsthrough 2026
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Kelly Ayotte, April 14 - Jan. 1728 filingsthrough 2025
Kristina DunklinForbes-Tate20 filingsthrough 2023
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Senior Aide and
Director of Scheduling, Senator Chuck Hagel, Staff Assistant, Senator
Chuck Hagel17 filingsthrough 2022
Samantha McleanForbes-TateCovered position: Senior LA, Senator Cruz (2018-2023); LA, Senator Cruz (2016-2018); Leg Aid, Senator Cruz (2013-2016); Assistant to the CoS and LD, Senator Cruz (2013-2013); SA, Senator DeMint (2012-2012).14 filingsthrough 2026
John BuscherForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Allen Boyd, Jun. 2001-Feb. 2009.11 filingsthrough 2021
Robert WalkerWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: Former Member, US House of Representatives7 filingsthrough 2011
Dale W SnapeWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLC7 filingsthrough 2011
Patric G LinkWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: US House; US Senate; NOAA6 filingsthrough 2011
Timothy Farrell HanneganWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: GAO4 filingsthrough 2011
George CooperForbes-Tate1 filingthrough 2021
ROBERT CRAMER jrWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: Former Member, US House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 11 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
