18 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2024 · latest filed Jan 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
18 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$910K on those filings
Veterans
VET
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Emily KirlinTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services, Senator John Cornyn; Whip Liaison, Senator Jon Kyl; Internal Communications Advisor, Senator Lamar Alexander19 filingsthrough 2024
Matthew LeffingwellTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services Coalitions, House Appropriations Cmte.; CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Deputy CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Projects Director/Press Secretary, Rep. Mark Kirk19 filingsthrough 2024
James HeimbachTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Special Asst to the President, The White House; CoS Senator Sherrod Brown; FCC -CSB and Congressional Affairs; OLA, The White House14 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: stride.
2 filings
$160K on those filings
Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles
APP
1 filing
$90K 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.
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2022
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.
Kristen HarperTiber Creek Group
11 filingsthrough 2022
Ashli PalmerTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations, Majority Whip James E. Clyburn; Policy Director, Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn; Chief of Staff, Rural Business Services Agency (USDA)6 filingsthrough 2021
Nikole BurroughsTiber Creek GroupCovered position: SD,House Asia,Pacific&Nonprolif Subcom(2019-2021);SD,House Ovrsght&Investig Subcom(2019);Snr Advisr, Off of Deputy Sec of State(2014-2017);PSM,Sen State Dept,Frgn Ops,&Rltd Prgs Subcom(2007-2014);Hring Clrk,Sen Jud Com(2007);SA,Sen Jud Com(2006-2007)3 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
