16 filings from 3 registrants · 2020–2022 · latest filed Dec 21, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$420K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$420K
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.
Agriculture
AGR
10 filings
$400K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$20K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1117th CongressFor the People Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Erskine W WellsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing9 filingsthrough 2022
Joseph Gary LaiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing9 filingsthrough 2022
Jennifer Larkin LukawskiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing7 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew J LewinBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing
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: tusk-philanthropies.
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.
6 filings
through 2022
Lori DenhamKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Communications Director, Staff Assistant - Rep. Cal Dooley, D-CA; Legislative Director - Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-OR4 filingsthrough 2022
Mj KennyKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Floor Assistant - Office of the Senate Democratic Whip; Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent - Senator Richard J. Durbin , D-IL4 filingsthrough 2022
Fred TurnerBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing4 filingsthrough 2022
Clayton Patrick HayesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV; Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant - Sen. Evan Bayh, D-IN; Staff Director - Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee.4 filingsthrough 2022
Luke AlbeeBlue Mountain StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Leahy. Chief of Staff, Mark Warner. Staff, Governor Dukakis.3 filingsthrough 2021
Lester MunsonBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing3 filingsthrough 2020
Justin RzepkaBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg. Aide Sen. Ensign1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
