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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
16 filings
$860K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
16 filings
$860K on those filings
Government Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
William MoschellaBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: PrincAssocDepAG DOJ,AsstAG DOJ,ChfLegCouns/Parliam Hs Judic Comm,ChfInvestigativeCouns Hs Judic Comm,GC Hs Rules Comm,Couns Hs Judic Comm,Couns/Parliam Hs Gov Rel
Comm,SrLegAsst Rep Frank Wolf,LegAsst Rep Frank Wolf,ComputerSysManager Rep Frank Wolf26 filingsthrough 2022
Zachary PfisterBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: LegDir Rep Larry Kissell; SenLegAsst Rep Larry Kissell; LegAsst Rep Larry Kissell; LegCorrespondent Rep Larry Kissell; LegCorrespondent Rep Brad Ellsworth; StaffAsst Rep Brad Ellsworth; LegIntern Sen Evan Bayh26 filingsthrough 2022
Brian WildBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor-Office of Speaker John Boehner; Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs- VP Cheney; Chief of Staff-Rep. Pat Toomey; Legislative Assistant- Sen. Hank Brown
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 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: united-states-cannabis-council-fra-cannabis-trade-federation.
GOV
8 filings
$720K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$670K on those filings
Banking
BAN
3 filings
$150K 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.
S. 3032115th CongressSTATES Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.2 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Brian MckeonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide - Sen Boxer; Legislative Assistant - Sen Boxer; Domestic Policy Advisor - Sen Boxer; Senior Advisor - Sen Boxer; Senior Counsel - Sen Boxer; Legislative Director - Senator Shaheen21 filingsthrough 2021
Andrew LittmanBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Dir, Sen Barbara Boxer; Chief of Staff, Sen Al Franken; Sr Counselor, HHS Sec Sylvia Matthews Burwell19 filingsthrough 2022
Travis J NortonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Tim Scott; Staff Dir, Senate Banking Subcomm. on Housing, Transportation, and Community Develop; General Counsel & Parliamentarian, House Financial Services Comm; General Counsel & Parliamentarian, House Judiciary Comm13 filingsthrough 2021
Brian Thomas McguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Asst Sec. for Legis. Affairs, Treasury; Counselor, Treasury; COS, Sen Mitch McConnell; Acting Staff Dir, Republican Comm Center, Sen Mitch McConnell; Dep Comm Dir, Sen Mitch McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, Sen Mitch McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, HUD7 filingsthrough 2022
Harold HancockBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, House Ways and Means Committee6 filingsthrough 2022
John SonsallaBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP5 filingsthrough 2018
Elizabeth M GoreBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff Sen Byron Dorgan, Legislative Dir Sen Byron Dorgan, Spec Asst for Legislative Affairs OMB, Legislative Dir Rep Chet Edwards, Economist US House Committee on Budget5 filingsthrough 2017
Darien Bailey FlowersBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Bill Cassidy; Research Assistant, Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Subcomm on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce3 filingsthrough 2017
Adam SteinmetzBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor - Committee on the Budget, United States House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2022
Alfred MotturBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Sr Communications Counsel Senate Commerce Comm; Communications Counsel Senate Commerce Comm; Law Clerk Federal District Court Bangor, ME1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 13 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
