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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$760K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$600K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)14 filingsthrough 2026
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005)14 filingsthrough 2026
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: tractor-supply-co.
ENG
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Postal
POS
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
5 filings
$300K 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.
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 2026
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Doug Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Doug Jones (2018-2019)14 filingsthrough 2026
Arthur Dennis SidneyForbes-TateCovered position: LD & Chief Counsel, Rep. Jackson Lee (2008-2009); Chief of staff and chief counsel, Rep. Johnson (2009-2020)11 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth BennettForbes-TateCovered position: Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)9 filingsthrough 2025
Tori SmithForbes-TateCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (2023-2025)4 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Speaker John Boehner (2010-2013); Floor Assistant, House Speaker John Boehner (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Boehner (2006 -2010); Staff Member, Rep. Pat Tiberi (2004-2006)1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
