28 filings from 3 registrants · 2018–2022 · latest filed Jan 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$755K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$755K
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.
H.R. 5682116th CongressCare for Veterans Act of 20201 filingthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld15 filingsthrough 2022
Justin KeenerGranite Public Affairs11 filingsthrough 2020
Casey Christine HigginsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Asst to Spkr for Policy and Trade Cnsl, Paul Ryan, Nov 15-Jan 19; Trade
Cncl to House Ways & Means, Jan 15-Nov 15; LC to Rep. Paul Ryan, Oct
11-Jan 15; Law Clrk House Budget Comm, Sep 09-May 10.7 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 28 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: texas-public-policy-foundation.
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.
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$75K 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.
Brett TolmanThe Tolman Group5 filingsthrough 2021
Gordon Hunter BatesAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Sen. McConnell, 2000-02; Legal Cnsl, Sen. McConnell, 1999-00;
Chief Cnsl, Senate Rules Committee, 1997-99.4 filingsthrough 2020
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2020
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 3 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
