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.
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-states-cannabis-council.
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.
TAX
7 filings
$960K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$30K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$390K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
6 filings
$30K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
4 filings
$210K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$430K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$40K 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.
117th Congress
MORE Act
12 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2677118th CongressHOPE Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2891118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1323118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2860118th CongressSAFER Banking Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6130117th CongressWilson's Creek National Battlefield Boundary Revision Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1996118th CongressTo provide for a limitation on availability of funds for Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health John E. Fogarty International Center for fiscal year 2024.2 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4591117th CongressCannabis Administration and Opportunity Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3105118th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for purposes of determining if financial guaranty insurance companies are qualifying insurance corporations under the passive foreign investment company rules.1 filingthrough 2023
H.R. 6129118th CongressStudying NEPA’s Impact on Projects Act1 filingthrough 2023
S. 1380118th CongressNeighborhood Tree Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
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.
Eduardo Soto
The Raben Group
Covered position: Legislative Aide, Maxine Waters Office; Intern, Office of Resident commissioner Pedro Pierluisi
8 filingsthrough 2023
Diego SanchezThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legislative Intern, Office of Representative Mike Coffman8 filingsthrough 2023
Tahir H JohnsonUnited States Cannabis CouncilCovered position: ; 6 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2021
Kathleen NicholasK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Congressional and Public Affairs Intern, National Nuclear Security Administration; Staff Assistant, Senate Select Committee on Ethics4 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel S. Nunez CohenK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2021
Jeffrey J. DenhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2021
Brenden R. ChaineyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel and Legislative Director, Rep. Chaka Fata4 filingsthrough 2021
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer4 filingsthrough 2021
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm3 filingsthrough 2021
Steven HawkinsUnited States Cannabis Council3 filingsthrough 2021
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2021
William KirkK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2021
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman2 filingsthrough 2021
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2021
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee1 filingthrough 2021
Roderick D. HallK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Asst Administrator for Government Affairs, FAA; Deputy Chief of Staff/LA/District Outreach Director, Rep Johnson1 filingthrough 2021
Randal MeyerUnited States Cannabis CouncilCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Rand Paul, 2016-171 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 14 of 22 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
