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-nebraska.
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.
61 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
56 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Defense
DEF
43 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
37 filings
$2M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
26 filings
$2M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
13 filings
$635K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
9 filings
$270K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
8 filings
$550K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
7 filings
$540K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
6 filings
$330K 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.
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3042115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2432115th CongressVolunteer Organization Protection Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2772114th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5054114th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5055114th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Russell ThomassonCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Dir and Legislative Asst to Senator John Cornyn; Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Bob Smith33 filingsthrough 2022
Jane Catherine Wise ThompsonCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Affairs- Dept of Energy; House Comm on Science & Technology14 filingsthrough 2019
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates14 filingsthrough 2012
Leslee Koch GilbertVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: DepCommDir/LegAsst, Congressman Ralph M. Hall6 filingsthrough 2014
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)5 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan MillerCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2026
Dianne NellorCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte; Prof. Staff Joint Econ. Cmte5 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick FloodCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff (Bacon); National Security Advisor (Bacon)5 filingsthrough 2026
Russell SimmonsCassidy & Associates, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2019
John FullerVan Scoyoc Associates2 filingsthrough 2010
Wendy Sammons-JacksonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Director, Military Infectious Diseases Research Program, US Army Medical Research and Development Command1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 9 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
