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-northwestern-mutual-life-insurance-company.
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.
FIN
92 filings
$70.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
78 filings
$70.1M on those filings
Retirement
RET
59 filings
$60.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
13 filings
$650K on those filings
Housing
HOU
8 filings
$400K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$1.3M 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
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
14 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4592116th CongressInternational Insurance Standards Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1165118th CongressData Privacy Act of 202310 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7107118th CongressHuman Trafficking Awareness Training Act9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2415118th CongressPreventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 744118th CongressData Care Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1478114th CongressPolicyholder Protection Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 26114th CongressTerrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3590114th CongressHalt Tax Increases on the Middle Class and Seniors Act9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4173114th CongressTo provide that an alien who has traveled to Iraq or Syria during the 5-year period prior to the alien's application for admission is ineligible to be admitted to the United States under the visa waiver program, and for other purposes.9 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.
through 2025
Christopher T. GahanThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyCovered position: Vice President Government Relations42 filingsthrough 2026
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.36 filingsthrough 2026
Drew CantorTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Press Secretary, Rep. Sue Kelly; Sr. Comms. Advisor, Sen. Republican Conference33 filingsthrough 2026
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Chris Bell; Chief of Staff, Rep. Melissa Bean33 filingsthrough 2026
Lindsey LedwinTiber Creek GroupCovered position: EA and Senior Scheduler, Sen. Olympia Snowe; Clerk, Sen. Comm. on Small Bus. and Entrprnrship; Staff Assist., Sen. Cohen, Special Comm. on Aging; Executive Assistant, Senator Susan Collins;
Prof. Staff, Permanent Subcomm. on Investigations33 filingsthrough 2026
Douglas P BatesThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company33 filingsthrough 2016
Kristen HarperTiber Creek Group31 filingsthrough 2026
Kathleen H SchluterThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company30 filingsthrough 2016
Alison WatsonThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company30 filingsthrough 2016
Erica Mason McquadeThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyCovered position: Assistant Director Government Relations27 filingsthrough 2026
Chris BrownMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, House Financial Services Committee26 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary K OstroMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Robin Kelly24 filingsthrough 2026
James HeimbachTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Special Asst to the President, The White House; CoS Senator Sherrod Brown; FCC - CSB and Congressional Affairs; OLA, The White House22 filingsthrough 2023
Lisa PetoMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, House Financial Services Committee Majority Staff19 filingsthrough 2026
Charlie SchreiberMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; Law clerk, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee19 filingsthrough 2026
Lauri NgMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee15 filingsthrough 2025
Scott ShewcraftMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Foster14 filingsthrough 2026
Kendra Kosko IsaacsonMindset Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Pensions Policy Director and Senior Tax Counsel, Sen. Patty Murray11 filingsthrough 2026
Michael L YoungmanThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company10 filingsthrough 2010
Jonathon JonesTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Tom Carper (2001-2006); Legislative Director, Sen. Tom Carper (2001)9 filingsthrough 2026
Jan BeukelmanTiber Creek GroupCovered position: CoS, Sen. Tom Carper (2021-2023); Asst. US Trade Representative, USTR (2021-2021); LD, Sen. Tom Carper (2019-2021); LA, Sen. Tom Carper (2014-2019); LA, Rep. Jim Matheson (2010-2014); LA, Rep. Dennis Moore (2009-2010); LC, Rep. Dennis Moore (2009)9 filingsthrough 2026
Ashli PalmerTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations, Majority Whip James E. Clyburn; Policy Director, Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn; Chief of Staff, Rural Business Services Agency (USDA)9 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 32 of 43 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
