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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
58 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
33 filings
$990K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: suntory-global-spirits-formerly-beam-suntory.
FOO
25 filings
$670K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$60K 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.
116th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
2 filingsthrough 2019
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.
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLC
29 filingsthrough 2018
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLC29 filingsthrough 2018
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules. Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions. House Committee on Homeland Security. Various staff positions, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert.28 filingsthrough 2021
Warren J. TryonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, House Financial Services Committee. Deputy Chief of Staff & Legislative Director, Rep. Spencer Bachus.28 filingsthrough 2021
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLC14 filingsthrough 2015
Robert DiamondCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, President Barack Obama.11 filingsthrough 2024
Adam Leonard CarassoCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Senior Tax and Economic Advisor, Senate Finance Committee; Chief Economist, House Budget Committee.7 filingsthrough 2026
Denise Henry MorriseyCapitol Counsel LLC7 filingsthrough 2013
Margaret CekutaCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Associate Chief of Staff, Council of Economic Advisers (White House); Director for Eurasia, Russia, and Germany (USTR).4 filingsthrough 2022
James GouldCapitol Counsel LLC1 filingthrough 2012
