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: syensqo-usa-llc.
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.
AUT
27 filings
$5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
27 filings
$5M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
26 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
26 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
26 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF
26 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
24 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
24 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
24 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$4.5M 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.
118th Congress
Elimination of Future Technology Delays Act of 2023
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7776118th CongressHelp Hoover Dam Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 842118th CongressTo amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.8 filingsthrough 2024
H.Res. 601118th CongressRecognizing the importance of engagement with the Latino community to get into the outdoors and participate in activities to protect United States natural resources, and expressing support for the designation of the third week of July as "Latino Conservation Week".8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1260118th CongressUniversity of Utah Research Park Act8 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Syensqo USA LLC
12 filingsthrough 2016
Ariel Hill-DavisSyensqo USA LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Michael N. Castle11 filingsthrough 2023
James Ka Chun LaiSyensqo USA LLCCovered position: Former Staff Assistant, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee9 filingsthrough 2026
Ian ChoiniereSyensqo USA LLC8 filingsthrough 2026
Suzanne FotiSyensqo USA LLC6 filingsthrough 2019
Daniel HarderMayer Brown LLPCovered position: Staff Assisant/Clerk - House Ways and Means 2014; Legislative Director - Rep. Mike Bishop 2015-2018.4 filingsthrough 2026
Russ KelleyRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Dem. Caucus; Counsel, Comm on Trans & Infra; Leg Dir & Counsel, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici; Comm Advisor, Office of the Dem. Leader; Dir of Radio, Dem. Comms Committee; Press Asst, Dem. Comms Committee3 filingsthrough 2026
Bryan ZumwaltRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Comm on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Chief Counsel, Sen. Comm on Environment and Public Works; Counsel, Sen. David Vitter; Counsel, Rep. Bilbray; Clerk, Comm on Natural Resources3 filingsthrough 2026
Ian Thomas Alexander WhitsonRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer3 filingsthrough 2026
Warren PayneMayer Brown LLPCovered position: U.S. Intl Comm: Trade Analyst, 2002-04; Economic Advisor, 2004-07; House Ways and Means Committee: Trade Economist, 2007-09; Sr. Economist/Trade Advisor, 2009-11; Chief Economist, 2011-13; Policy Director, 2012-153 filingsthrough 2025
TIMOTHY J KEELER esqMayer Brown LLPCovered position: USTR, Chief of Staff, 2006-2009 US Treasury Department, Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, 2001-2006 Presidential Transition Team, Policy Analyst, 2000-2001 Senate Finance Committee, Professional Staff, 1997-20002 filingsthrough 2025
Luc ChavezRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Sen. Lujan1 filingthrough 2026
Ron HughesSyensqo USA LLC1 filingthrough 2010
Cameron BerrySyensqo USA LLC1 filingthrough 2010
Richard HoganSyensqo USA LLC1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 11 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
