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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
52 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
28 filings
$920K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Manuel OrtizVantageknight LLC31 filingsthrough 2026
Denise BodeMichael Best Strategies LLC16 filingsthrough 2020
Kevin SwansonMichael Best Strategies LLC11 filingsthrough 2019
Sarah HeltonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House of Representatives10 filingsthrough 2019
Michael BainGuidepoststrategies, LLC Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations; Staff Assistant, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 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: trc-companies-inc.
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.
28 filings
$920K 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.
Covered position:
9 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas SchreibelMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, House of Representatives7 filingsthrough 2020
John GrayGuidepoststrategies, LLCCovered position: House Budg Comm., Spec. Asst., Budg. Analyst; House Republican Conf., Policy Advisor; Sen. Rand Paul, Budg. Dir., Legis. Dir.; White House/OMB, Assoc. Dir., Act. Chief of Staff; White House/VP, Dir. of Policy; White House, Dep. Asst. to the Pres.4 filingsthrough 2026
John SheehanMichael Best Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2018
Patrick Lannin FirthMichael Best Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
