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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Advertising
ADV
42 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
19 filings
$1.9M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 73116th CongressEnd Taxpayer Subsidies for Drug Ads Act8 filingsthrough 2020
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.21 filingsthrough 2026
Jack Macgregor CampbellCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Finance Cmte.; General Counsel, Senate Finance Cmte.; Leg. Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Counsel/ Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Asst. U.S. Trade Rep. for Congressional Affairs, President Obama.21 filingsthrough 2026
Sylvia Stanojev KornegayPolsinelli PC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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: the-advertising-coalition.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
Improving Access To Affordable Prescription Drugs Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1437116th CongressDrug-price Transparency in Communications (DTC) Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2439115th CongressFair Accountability and Innovative Research Drug Pricing Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1131115th CongressFair Accountability and Innovative Research Drug Pricing Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1348115th CongressStopping the Pharmaceutical Industry from Keeping Drugs Expensive (SPIKE) Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4106116th CongressResponsibility in Drug Advertising Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1741114th CongressTruth in Healthcare Marketing Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4711116th CongressNo Tax Breaks for Drug Ads Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1801116th CongressAffordable Medications Act5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2550116th CongressNo Tax Subsidies for E-Cigarette and Tobacco Ads Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4116115th CongressTransparent Drug Pricing Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4385115th CongressResponsibility in Drug Advertising Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
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.
21 filings
through 2020
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.20 filingsthrough 2026
Josh KardonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Ron Wyden; Legislative Director/Press Secretary, Senator Ron Wyden; and Staff Director, House Government Affairs Committee.20 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey CarrollCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff Director House Energy and Commerce Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Director, Rep. Frank Pallone; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Frank Pallone.19 filingsthrough 2026
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ross; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Secretary, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln.13 filingsthrough 2026
David BridgesCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. John Barrasso; Tax Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed.13 filingsthrough 2026
Nick BouknightCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Chief of Staff/ Communications Dir., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Bill Thomas; Deputy Press Sec., Ways and Means Cmte.; Press Asst., Ways and Means Cmte.7 filingsthrough 2024
Adam Leonard CarassoCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Senior Tax and Economic Advisor, Senate Finance Committee; Chief Economist, House Budget Committee.6 filingsthrough 2026
BOB R BROOKS jrCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey.6 filingsthrough 2022
James DavidsonCapitol Counsel LLC5 filingsthrough 2021
Alexander ParkerCapitol Counsel LLC2 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
