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-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill.
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.
51 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
50 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
48 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
29 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
22 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
21 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
21 filings
$755K on those filings
Defense
DEF
20 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
15 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$445K 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.
114th Congress
Innovation Act
5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 227114th CongressStrengthening Education through Research Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 590114th CongressCampus Accountability and Safety Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 699114th CongressAmerican Opportunity Tax Credit Permanence and Consolidation Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 598111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2996113th CongressRevitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4186113th CongressFIRST Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1468113th CongressRevitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2251111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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:
16 filingsthrough 2017
Sam M GibbonsGibbons & Company, Inc11 filingsthrough 2010
Clifford S GibbonsGibbons & Company, Inc11 filingsthrough 2010
Michael SorensenDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Scheduler and other positions, Sen. Richard Burr; Intern, Rep. John Boehner; Intern, Rep. Mike Kelly10 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel PortmanDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Deputy Health Policy Director, Committee on Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Health Policy Assistant, Sen. Richard Burr; Intern, Rep. Robert Portman10 filingsthrough 2026
John Edward PorterHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Member of Congress9 filingsthrough 2012
Michael J BellHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)9 filingsthrough 2012
Charles McdowellCheckmate Government Relations7 filingsthrough 2026
Richard BurrDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: U.S. Senator6 filingsthrough 2026
CHRISTOPHER LACIVITA jrCheckmate Government Relations6 filingsthrough 2026
Caitlin KouryCheckmate Government Relations6 filingsthrough 2026
Frederick VaughanCheckmate Government RelationsCovered position: Principal Deputy Asst. Secretary, Treasury Dept.; Deputy Asst. Secretary, Treasury Dept.; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Cmte.; Associate Director, The White House; Confidential Asst., Office of Management & Budget; Writer, The White House5 filingsthrough 2025
Robert D. KyleHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: NEC Chf Int'l Trade Coun, Sen.Fin.Comm5 filingsthrough 2010
C. Michael GillilandHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)5 filingsthrough 2010
Muhammad Usman RahimCheckmate Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst. Office of the Executive Secretariat4 filingsthrough 2026
Miles LackeyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillCovered position: Office of Senator Elizabeth Dole3 filingsthrough 2012
Paul G RogersHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: Member of Congress2 filingsthrough 2008
Kelsey MasonUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillCovered position: US Senator Richard Burr and US Senate HELP committee1 filingthrough 2026
David ClearyDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Republican Staff Director, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Chief of Staff, Sen. Lamar Alexander; Professional Staff, House Education and Workforce Committee1 filingthrough 2024
Clayton SomersUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 15 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
