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.
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
37 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
37 filings
$1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1383115th CongressRecognizing Officers and Enlisted Men of the Korean Constabulary Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4212115th CongressTo amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to increase support for conservation practices under the emergency conservation program, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2018
Rodney WhitlockMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 2011-2015: Health Policy Director, Sen. Chuck Grassley; 2005-2010: Health Policy Advisor, Senate Finance Committee; 2003-2005: Legislative Director, Rep. Charlie Norwood; 1997-2002: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood32 filingsthrough 2026
Katie WaldoMcdermott+ LLC23 filingsthrough 2026
Debra CurtisMcdermott+ LLCCovered position: 1998-2013: Legislative Director, Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Stark; jointly Professional Staff on Committee on Ways and Means, Health Subcommittee22 filingsthrough 2026
Ethan PittlemanCapitol Counsel LLC Legislative Aide, Rep. Kurt Schrader.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 77 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-mentor-network.
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.
19 filings
$580K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
11 filings
$300K on those filings
Veterans
VET
9 filings
$200K 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.
117th Congress
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
7 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 456114th CongressReducing Barriers for Veterans Education Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
S. 298114th CongressACE Kids Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1868117th CongressTo prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2021
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:
21 filingsthrough 2021
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.21 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel PenchinaThe Raben Group15 filingsthrough 2015
Jonathan J KentThe Raben GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Peter Welch14 filingsthrough 2015
Kayla HolgashMcdermott+ LLC13 filingsthrough 2025
Robert RabenThe Raben GroupCovered position: Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Counsel, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property Counsel, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA)13 filingsthrough 2015
Karen MarangiThe Raben GroupCovered position: Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on Senate Judiciary Committee Legislative Aide to Senator Alan Cranston13 filingsthrough 2015
Christina WeaverThe Raben GroupCovered position: Leg Counsel, Rep S. Jackson11 filingsthrough 2014
Susan S ZookMason Street Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Mike Crapo10 filingsthrough 2023
Makan DelahimBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Deputy Asst AG Antitrust Div DOJ, Chf Counsel & Staff Dir Senate Judiciary Comm, Counsel Senate Judiciary Comm7 filingsthrough 2016
