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.
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
7 filings
$570K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
4 filings
$170K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Brian BallardBallard Partners8 filingsthrough 2026
Hunter MorgenBallard PartnersCovered position: Policy Advisor, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. State Dept. (2017); Deputy Director, Office of Trade & Manufacturing Policy, WH (2017-2018); Special Assistant to the President, Office of the Senior Advisor for Policy, WH (2018-2020)8 filingsthrough 2026
Gerald John O'HanlonBallard Partners5 filingsthrough 2025
John SteitzRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior LA, Sen. John Kennedy; Senior PSM and PSM, Sen. Small Business Committee; LA and LC, Sen. David Vitter.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-toy-association.
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.
CHM
4 filings
$170K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$170K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$90K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
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.
5 filings
through 2025
Russ KelleyRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Dem. Caucus; Counsel, Comm on Trans & Infra; Leg Dir & Counsel, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici; Comm Advisor, Office of the Dem. Leader; Dir of Radio, Democrat Comms Committee; Press Asst, Dem. Comms Committee.5 filingsthrough 2025
Bryan ZumwaltRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 15 Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; Counsel, Sen. David Vitter; Counsel, Rep. Bilbray; Clerk, Comm on Natural Resources.5 filingsthrough 2025
Joe MarinelliRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Senior Legislative Aide, Legislative Aide, LC, Staff Assistant, Sen. Thomas Carper.5 filingsthrough 2025
Ian Thomas Alexander WhitsonRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. David Rouzer; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. David Rouzer; Staff Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer.5 filingsthrough 2025
Antonia O'MalleyRidgeline Advocacy Group LLC5 filingsthrough 2025
Grace Newcombe ColvinBallard PartnersCovered position: Intern to Senator Luther Strange, 20173 filingsthrough 2026
Edward DesmondDesmond Consulting Services1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
