34 filings from 2 registrants · 2019–2024 · latest filed May 17, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$900K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$900K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
27 filings
$900K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1992116th CongressCharitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 170116th CongressCharitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern15 filingsthrough 2022
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.14 filingsthrough 2022
BOB R BROOKS jrCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey.14 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 34 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-strategic-group.
fees reported
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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.
117th Congress
SCALE Act
6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 170117th CongressUnfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2256117th CongressCharitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act of 20212 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.
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.
11 filingsthrough 2022
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC11 filingsthrough 2021
CHARLES WILLIAM BOUSTANY jrCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 7th and 3rd districts; House Ways and Means Committee.11 filingsthrough 2021
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 018 filingsthrough 2020
Jonathan KottCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor & Communications Dir., Sen. Joe Manchin; Sr. Advisor & Communications Dir., Sen. Chris Coons; Press Sec., Rep. Brad Ellsworth; Press Sec., Rep. Anthony Weiner; Speechwriter, Sen. Evan Bayh; Public Affrs. Spec., Ofc. of the Director, OPM.3 filingsthrough 2022
Ryan EllisAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2019
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
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
