61 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2025 · latest filed Jan 12, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
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.
Health Issues
HCR
56 filings
$1.4M 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. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
Alexander David LurieDentons US LLP45 filingsthrough 2021
JOHN R RUSSELL ivDentons US LLPCovered position: Outreach Coordinator, Rep. Tom Delay39 filingsthrough 2021
Valerie NelsonDentons US LLPCovered position: Sched., Rep. Ramstad; Dir. Member Services, Rep. Eric Cantor25 filingsthrough 2020
Margeaux PlaistedDentons US LLPCovered position: Scheduler, Congressman Ramstad; White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Executive Office of the President;
The filings
The 20 most recent of 61 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: ucare.
115th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018
1 filingthrough 2018
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.
18 filings
through 2021
Callan James SmithDentons US LLPCovered position: Policy research assistant, Senate Finance Committee; Staff Assistant to Senator Max Baucus;11 filingsthrough 2025
Emily JacobsDentons US LLPCovered position: Legislative Coordinator, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart11 filingsthrough 2025
Bruce M FriedDentons US LLP9 filingsthrough 2012
Gary L GoldbergDentons US LLPCovered position: LD and Counsel, Rep. Brad Sherman3 filingsthrough 2013
Richard StantonDentons US LLP3 filingsthrough 2013
Jeffrey DenhamDentons US LLPCovered position: Former Member of the House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
