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.
John BlountErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLC20 filingsthrough 2021
Josh FinestoneVenable LLPCovered position: ​Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
The filings
The 20 most recent of 66 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: trellix.
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.
26 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
25 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
14 filings
$280K 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.
115th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
5 filingsthrough 2017
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2016
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.
15 filingsthrough 2023
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak15 filingsthrough 2023
Lisa Marie CheneyErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Principal11 filingsthrough 2016
Daniel SauersErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A9 filingsthrough 2025
Daniel HillErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: President9 filingsthrough 2015
Mark BurnsErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2025
John LucioErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: John Lucio6 filingsthrough 2024
Julia TrentErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs (Feb 2023 - May 2025)5 filingsthrough 2026
John DandridgeErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan WhiteErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: Legis. Dir., Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC)-2017; Legis. Dir., Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ)-2016; Sr. Legis. Asst., Rep. David Schweikert-2013-2016; Legis. Asst., Rep. David Schweikert-2012-2013; Legis. Corr., Rep. David Schweikert-2011-2012.1 filingthrough 2026
Thomas KaralusErvin Graves Strategy Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Economic Policy (1/2024 - 5/2024) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs (8/2025 - 10/2025)1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 14 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
