Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
U.S.-RUSSIA Business Council
District of Columbia
52 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2023 · latest filed Jul 19, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$997K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$320K
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.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
50 filings
$1.3M 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.
- S. 2828 113th CongressUkraine Freedom Support Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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.
- Randi B Levinas U.S.-RUSSIA Business CouncilCovered position: N/A48 filingsthrough 2023
- Kellen John Moriarty U.S.-RUSSIA Business Council10 filingsthrough 2012
- Edward Verona U.S.-RUSSIA Business Council6 filingsthrough 2012
- Peter Madigan Tiber Creek GroupCovered position: CoS, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick5 filingsthrough 2012
- Jonathon Jones
The filings
The 20 most recent of 52 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: u-s-russia-business-council.
