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.
Kyle NevinsHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-0650 filingsthrough 2026
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-0350 filingsthrough 2026
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLC Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06; Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-02
The filings
The 20 most recent of 162 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-blackstone-group.
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.
ENG
37 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
33 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
25 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
21 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
21 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
20 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
19 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
18 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
17 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
16 filings
$2.8M 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.
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.1 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 5447116th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide certain veterans with nonarticulating trailers in furnishing adaptive equipment to veterans.1 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.
JOSEPH MICHAEL HOGAN jrAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Ben Nelson39 filingsthrough 2024
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader35 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan SlemrodHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Legislative Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, '17-'18, Policy Advisor, Office of the Sen. Republican Whip, '12-'17, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marco Rubio '11-'1231 filingsthrough 2026
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, Rep. Rangel; Dir., WH Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships; US Dept. of Commerce; CoS, Rep. Jeffries27 filingsthrough 2026
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-2006/23 filingsthrough 2025
Keith CastaldoAvoq, LLCCovered position: Rep. Bill Pascrell (2010-2013) - Economic Policy Advisor and Tax Counsel; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (2013-2021) - Finance Counsel 2013-2014, General Counsel 2014-2021.21 filingsthrough 2026
Lauren BazelAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Senior Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. John Kerry; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. William Cowan15 filingsthrough 2018
Richard Lyles SullivanCapitol Counsel LLC15 filingsthrough 2015
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLC15 filingsthrough 2015
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC15 filingsthrough 2015
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Cong. Mike Ross ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln15 filingsthrough 2015
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th ; ; Ranking Member, House Ways and Means Committee ; ; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation15 filingsthrough 2015
Parker H. PolingHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Spec. Asst to Dir. of Media Affairs 01-03; Comm. on Educ. and Workforce, Chairman Boehner 03-04; Law Clerk to Chairman Toner, FEC 05-06; COS, Cong. McHenry 07-14; COS, Chief Dep. Whip McHenry 14-18 in Office of Maj. Whip Scalise.9 filingsthrough 2023
BOB R BROOKS jrAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey9 filingsthrough 2017
Kristina KennedyAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Counsel, Counsel, and Legislative Director, Sen. Sarbanes8 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 35 of 43 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
