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: university-of-georgia.
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.
31 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
31 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Defense
DEF
19 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
18 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
18 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
18 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
15 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Animals
ANI
14 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
14 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
14 filings
$1.1M 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.
4 filings
through 2008
S. 1642110th CongressHigher Education Amendments of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1469110th CongressSenator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 991110th CongressSenator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
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 2018
S. 2439119th CongressResident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 2952118th CongressRAP 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.
Covered position:
21 filingsthrough 2017
Alex McgeeMckenna, Long & AldridgeCovered position: Staff, Sen.Coverdell; DepAsst. Sec. Dept.of Energy17 filingsthrough 2014
Margaret GilleySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2005-July 2010: LA and Senior PA, Cong. Jack Kingston15 filingsthrough 2020
Griff DoyleUniversity of GeorgiaCovered position: N/A15 filingsthrough 2012
John KingstonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1993-2015, Congressman-U.S. House of Representatives14 filingsthrough 2020
Sarah Groothuis VilmsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Dec. 1990- Jan. 1991, Intern, Cong. Barbara Kennelly; Aug. 1992, Intern, Sen. Joseph Lieberman12 filingsthrough 2019
Samantha CadetUniversity of Georgia10 filingsthrough 2021
Austin HarrisonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: March 2009: Intern for Cong. Gregg Harper; May-Aug. 2013: Intern for Sen. Thad Cochran; January-May 2015: June-August 2015: U.S. Department of State, intern, U.S. Embassy, Zagreb, Croatia.8 filingsthrough 2020
Alex McgeeDentons US LLPCovered position: Dept. Assistant Secretary of Energy, Staff of Senator Coverdell8 filingsthrough 2017
Kathryn NovariaSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Aug. 07-Dec 08-SA, Rep. Joe Knollenberg; Jan 09-Dec 10-SA/Press Assist, Rep. Fred Upton; Jan.11-March '13-Legis.Clerk, House Com. on Energy and Commerce;April '13-Feb. '16- Pro. Staff Member, House Com. Energy and Commerce, Sub. on Health7 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth CarpenterMckenna, Long & AldridgeCovered position: Legis. Asst., Senator Lincoln Chafee7 filingsthrough 2013
Alex AlbertMckenna, Long & Aldridge7 filingsthrough 2010
Cory GattieUniversity of GeorgiaCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, former U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson6 filingsthrough 2026
Charles Thomas BreretonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Sept.-Dec. 2014: Intern, Office of Speaker John Boehner; Sept.-Dec. 2016: Intern, Office of Senator Richard Burr6 filingsthrough 2019
Laura Marie KlickSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: August-December.2013: Legal Intern, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.6 filingsthrough 2017
Devon Faithe GillUniversity of Georgia4 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher Charles DevineUniversity of GeorgiaCovered position: Staff Assistant and Legislative Correspondent for Senator Johnny Isakson Professional Staff Member for US Senate Committee on Budget Director of Budget and Appropriations for House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee3 filingsthrough 2024
Perrin BrownSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Aug. 2016-Dec. 2016, Press Intern to Sen. Joe Manchin1 filingthrough 2020
Phillip BianchiSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: August 2008-January 2009: Intern for Senator Arlen Specter1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 17 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
