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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
18 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
15 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7959119th CongressIRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act2 filingsthrough 2026
S. 4639119th CongressIRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act1 filingthrough 2026
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.
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug99-Nov 0015 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan EllisAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld15 filingsthrough 2026
Brendan DunnAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff Mbr and Leg Asst to Sen Hatch Judiciary Comm and Sub-Comm,Apr04-May07, Aug07-May08; Special Counsel to Sen Hatch Fin Comm,Jan 11-Dec 12; Policy Adv and Counsel to Sen McConnell MajorityLeader staff, Dec 12-May18.7 filingsthrough 2024
Brendan DunnPhronesisdc, LLCCovered position: Staff Mbr and Leg Asst to Sen Hatch Judiciary Comm and Sub-Comm,Apr04-May07, Aug07-May08; Special Counsel to Sen Hatch Fin Comm,Jan 11-Dec 12; Policy Adv and Counsel to Sen McConnell Majority Leader staff, Dec 12-May18.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 34 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-center-for-a-free-economy.
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.
TRD
1 filing
$100K 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.
6 filingsthrough 2025
Riley StamperPhronesisdc, LLCCovered position: Leg staff member, Sen. Hagerty (Jan 21 - Dec 23); Staff member, Sen. Alexander (May 19 - October 19).5 filingsthrough 2025
Jeff McmillenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff dir, H Ways & Means Subcomm on Sel Rev Measures, Mar 01-Mar 04; staff, H Ways & Means Subcom on Oversight, Jun 98-Mar 01.2 filingsthrough 2025
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern.1 filingthrough 2025
Brett QuickPhronesisdc, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Bachus (2010-2012); Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Bachus(2012-2014); Leg Dir, Rep. Bachus (2015-2016); Staff Director, Senate Banking Cmte Subcmte on Natl Security, International Trade, and Finance (2016-2017)1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
