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.
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
85 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$670K 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 — 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. 3091117th CongressCherokee Nation and Chickasaw Nation Criminal Jurisdiction Compacting Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7263116th CongressTo repeal the eighth proviso under Operation of Indian Programs of 1998 to restore Tribal sovereignty.4 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Steven PruittJ.C. Watts CompaniesCovered position: Former Staff Director, House Budget Committee45 filingsthrough 2019
JC WATTS jrJ.C. Watts CompaniesCovered position: Former Member of Congress45 filingsthrough 2019
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: united-keetoowah-band-of-cherokee-indians-in-oklahoma.
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.
Bryan ShadeLippes Mathias LLP (Fka Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP)Covered position: Staff attorney, Division of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior14 filingsthrough 2026
Christiane Shizuko Cardoza BrundageLippes Mathias LLP (Fka Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP)Covered position: Attorney Adviser, HHS/OGC Legislation Division; Counsel to Senator Hirono (Judiciary Committee); Interim DC Bureau Chief, Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Legislative Assistant, Senator Schatz and Committee on Indian Affairs (Chairman Akaka)1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
