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.
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
53 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
36 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Transportation
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4308117th CongressRemoving Federal Barriers to Offering of Mobile Wagers on Indian Lands Act3 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2022
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S ; ; Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 0048 filingsthrough 2024
Allison BinneyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Gen cnsl, Sen Comm on Indian Affairs, Jul 05-Dec 07; staff ; ; dir and chf cnsl, Sen Comm on Indian Affairs, Dec 07-Mar 1142 filingsthrough 2023
Don PongraceAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld34 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 58 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-seneca-nation-of-indians.
TRA
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Education
EDU
1 filing
$30K 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
Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act
2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2907117th CongressTruth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2824110th CongressTo sever United States' government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma until such time as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma restores full tribal citizenship to the Cherokee Freedmen disenfranchised in the March 3, 2007, Cherokee Nation vote and fulfills all its treaty obligations with the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2008
S. 1177110th CongressClean Air Planning Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
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 0122 filingsthrough 2019
Katie Morgan BrossyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld20 filingsthrough 2026
Arshi SiddiquiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: pol aide, Rep Clayton, Oct 97-Jan 9820 filingsthrough 2018
Ryan EllisAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld20 filingsthrough 2017
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-0417 filingsthrough 2020
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: 1996; leg aide to Sen Coverdell, 1993-9415 filingsthrough 2017
Robert LeonardAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Chief cnsl & staff dir, H Ways & Means Comm, 1987-9314 filingsthrough 2016
Michael-Corey Francis HintonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Fellow to Sen Dorgan, S Comm on Ind Affairs, Jan-May 201013 filingsthrough 2017
Denise DesiderioAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dep Staff Dir, S Comm on Ind Affairs, Feb 13-Jan 14; Snr Cnsl, S Comm on Ind Affairs, Jan 09-Feb 13; Cnslr, Office of Gen Cnsl for the Nat Indian Gaming Commission, Sep 05-Dec 09; Special Assist to the Assist Secretary for Ind Affairs, Jan 03-Sep 0511 filingsthrough 2021
Caryn Dyson LesterAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Prof staff mbr to Sen Breaux, 2003-04; Intrn to Sen Mikulski, 19998 filingsthrough 2017
Michael RossettiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Cnsl to Interior Sec, Apr 01-Feb 044 filingsthrough 2018
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm4 filingsthrough 2017
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 Majority Leader staff, Dec 12-May18.1 filingthrough 2020
Gordon Hunter BatesAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Sen. McConnell, 2000-02; Legal Cnsl, Sen. McConnell, 1999-00; Chief Cnsl, Senate Rules Committee, 1997-99.1 filingthrough 2019
Bill PaxonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2008
Anthony FotiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2008
Smith W DavisAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2008
Todd Joseph AraujoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 19 of 29 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
