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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Torts
TOR
55 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
31 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Bankruptcy
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 60 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 963117th CongressFAIR Act of 20228 filingsthrough 2022
S. 840117th CongressLitigation Funding Transparency Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
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-institute-for-legal-reform-u-s-chamber-of-commerce.
BNK
27 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
26 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
13 filings
$670K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
7 filings
$280K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Banking
BAN
6 filings
$230K on those filings
Insurance
INS
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
3 filings
$150K 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.
115th Congress
Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act of 2017
S. 2805118th CongressProtecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 471116th CongressLitigation Funding Transparency Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1109114th CongressTruth in Settlements Act of 20156 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.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Covered position: Secretary - Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Ambassador to Holy See - Dept. of State
5 filingsthrough 2016
Brooks BrunsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Spec. Asst. to Chief of Staff-Hs. Republican Conf5 filingsthrough 2014
Brandt AndersonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Committee on Veterans Affairs; Military Legislative Assistant, Rep Jackie Walorski; Legislative Director, Rep Jim Banks; Military Legislative Assistant, Senator Ted Cruz; National Security Advisor, Senator Todd Young3 filingsthrough 2024
Jonathan TowersBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir, Senate Vet Affairs, GOP Staff; Staff Dir, House Vet Affairs, GOP; Dep. Staff Dir, House Vet Affairs, GOP; Sr Health Policy Advisor, Senate Vet Affairs, GOP; Sr Prof Staff Mem. Senate Vet Affairs, GOP; Prof Staff Mem Senate Vet Affairs, GOP2 filingsthrough 2024
Manuel OrtizBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP2 filingsthrough 2013
Gregory SunstrumBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff , Rep. Debbie Dingell; Deputy Chief of Staff and Leg. Director, Rep. Debbie Dingell ; Leg. Director, Rep. John Dingell; Leg. Assistant, Rep. John Dingell; Staff Assistant/Leg. Correspondent Rep. John Dingell1 filingthrough 2026
Alice LugoBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Leg Affairs, Dept Homeland Security; Chief Counsel, Sen Menendez; Acting Leg Director, Sen Menendez; Counsel, Rep Luis Gutierrez; Legal Fellow, Rep Luis Gutierrez; Legal Fellow, Dep of Homeland Security; Intern, Sen Ben Nelson1 filingthrough 2026
John ReisingBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Scheduler, Operations Director, Member Services Director, Deputy Chief of Staff- Majority Leader Steve Scalise; Operations Director, Rep. Bill Flores; Scheduler, Rep. Austin Scott; Intern, Senator Trent Lott.1 filingthrough 2026
Tim ShadyacBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP1 filingthrough 2026
Andrew UsykBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Leg Assistant, Sen. Robert Casey; Legislative Aide, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand; Compliance Officer, Sen. Gillibrand; Intern, Sen. Gillibrand and Rep. John Dingell1 filingthrough 2024
Ryan A SmithBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel - Senator Jon Kyl1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 13 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
