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: the-cook-group-inc.
$700K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
CPT
49 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
46 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Housing
HOU
20 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Education
EDU
18 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Veterans
VET
13 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
12 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
12 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Torts
TOR
9 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
9 filings
$1.2M 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.
118th Congress
American Innovation and Jobs Act
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 523113th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 232113th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1717119th CongressEnsuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2673118th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 160114th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 149114th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Covered position:
18 filingsthrough 2018
Patrick MartinMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: and Insurance Oversight, Dept of HHS18 filingsthrough 2018
LF PAYNE jrMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Former US Congressman18 filingsthrough 2016
Frank DonatelliMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)18 filingsthrough 2016
Stephanie A KennanMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Sr. Health Advisor, Senator Ron Wyden17 filingsthrough 2015
Charlyn IovinoMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)14 filingsthrough 2018
Christopher MccannellApco Worldwide LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael McMahon14 filingsthrough 2015
Brian LooserMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Legislative Corr. - Rep. J. Dennis Hastert10 filingsthrough 2015
Baron Paul HillApco Worldwide LLCCovered position: Member, US House of Representatives9 filingsthrough 2014
Rosemary BecchiMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Tax Counsel, Senate Finance Committee8 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew SmithMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Assistant to Chief of Staff, Senator Mark Warner7 filingsthrough 2017
Ronald L PlattMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)7 filingsthrough 2013
Robin WileyThe Cook Group Inc.Covered position: Manager, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs7 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 14 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
