76 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 21, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$176K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$96K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$80K
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.
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: taxpayers-for-common-sense.
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.
56 filings
$176K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
54 filings
$64K on those filings
Defense
DEF
53 filings
$96K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
45 filings
$10K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
37 filings
Transportation
TRA
32 filings
$56K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
29 filings
$66K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
15 filings
$20K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
Banking
BAN
4 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 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.
H.R. 2555111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4940111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5103111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 440111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
16 filingsthrough 2012
Erich ZimmermannTaxpayers for Common SenseCovered position: Senior Policy Analyst9 filingsthrough 2012
Raymond McgrathDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2015
Jill LancelotTaxpayers for Common SenseCovered position: Senior Advisor7 filingsthrough 2010
Marcie Kate McswaneDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.Covered position: Exec Asst/Ofc Mgr Rep Lucas Feb 08 - Aug 096 filingsthrough 2015
Laura PetersonTaxpayers for Common SenseCovered position: Senior Policy Analyst6 filingsthrough 2010
Demian MooreTaxpayers for Common SenseCovered position: Senior Policy Analyst4 filingsthrough 2008
