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.
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader59 filingsthrough 2026
Conwey CasillasUniversity of Phoenix, Inc.59 filingsthrough 2026
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-phoenix-inc.
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.
26 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$1.8M 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. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: ​Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee36 filingsthrough 2020
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: ​​​LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip36 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: ​Professional Staff, Senate Finance; Acting Chief, Healthcare, Senate Finance; Professional Staff, Health Senate Finance; ​Leg Asst., Senator Baucus35 filingsthrough 2020
Kristina KennedyAvoq, LLCCovered position: ​Leg Counsel, Counsel, and Legislative Director, Sen. Sarbanes33 filingsthrough 2019
Joanna AcocellaUniversity of Phoenix, Inc.28 filingsthrough 2018
Eric G. RizzoUniversity of Phoenix, Inc.27 filingsthrough 2026
Robert CogornoAvoq, LLCCovered position: Communications, Sen. Adams21 filingsthrough 2017
Keith CastaldoAvoq, LLCCovered position: Rep. Bill Pascrell (2010-2013) - Economic Policy Advisor and Tax Counsel; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (2013-2021) - Finance Counsel 2013-2014, General Counsel 2014-2021.20 filingsthrough 2026
Ed KutlerAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Director, House Wednesday Group; Senior Advisor to Minority Whip and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich14 filingsthrough 2020
Jamie WallAvoq, LLCCovered position: LA - Sen. Roy Blunt, LA - Sen. Kit Bond, LC - Sen. Kit Bond, Staff Asst. - Sen. Kit Bond, Constituent Svcs Caseworker - Gov. Matt Blunt9 filingsthrough 2018
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, Rep. Rangel; Dir., WH Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships; US Dept. of Commerce; CoS, Rep. Jeffries6 filingsthrough 2020
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.6 filingsthrough 2020
Tom LopachAvoq, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Sen. Jon Tester - 2010-2014; Senior Vice President Congressional Affairs - Export Import Bank of the United States - 2009; Legislative Aide - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy - 2001; Field Representative - Rep. Pat Williams - 1996;3 filingsthrough 2017
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-2006/2 filingsthrough 2020
Mark BrennerUniversity of Phoenix, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2017
Lindsey SeidmanAvoq, LLCCovered position: R Clerk - Sen Approps LHHS Subcmte (Sen. Capito); R Dep Staff Dir - Sen HELP Cmte (Sen. Burr); R Dep Staff Dir/Sr Policy Adv - Sen HELP Cmte (Sen. Alexander); Professional Staff - Sen Rules Cmte (Sen. Alexander); LA/Corr Dir/LC -Sen. Alexander1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 16 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
