20 filings from 2 registrants · 2019–2025 · latest filed Jan 21, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$340K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$340K
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.
Tobacco
TOB
19 filings
$340K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
17 filings
$330K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5304119th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20262 filingsthrough 2025
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: tobacco-21.
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.
17 filings
$330K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$230K 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.
119th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2624118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4942118th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4659117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5371119th CongressContinuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 20261 filingthrough 2025
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.
JOHN R RUSSELL ivDentons US LLPCovered position: Outreach Coordinator, Representative Tom Delay; Chief of Staff, Representative Randy Forbes; Deputy Chief of Staff-Deputy to Chief of Staff-Floor Assistant, Representative Dennis Hastert2 filingsthrough 2019
Margeaux PlaistedDentons US LLPCovered position: ​Exec. Assistant, Office of Legislative Affairs, EOP; Scheduler, Rep. Jim Ramstad2 filingsthrough 2019
Valerie NelsonDentons US LLPCovered position: Scheduler, Representative Jim Ramstad; Director of Member Services, Representative Eric Cantor2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
