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-pittsburgh.
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.
63 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
56 filings
$7M on those filings
Defense
DEF
54 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
47 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
45 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
40 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
31 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
28 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
13 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Animals
ANI
9 filings
$1.2M 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.
110th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009
6 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3258110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20095 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1339113th CongressPalliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2209113th CongressTo establish a chain of command for Army National Military Cemeteries.4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2115113th CongressAmerican Cures Act4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3217112th CongressStartup Act 2.04 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1150111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1326111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1547111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1726111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2492111th 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.
15 filingsthrough 2024
Kenneth Michael LynchUniversity of PittsburghCovered position: Associate Director for Federal Relations15 filingsthrough 2015
Eugenia C StonerUniversity of PittsburghCovered position: Asst. Vice Chancellor for Federal Relations14 filingsthrough 2013
Leslie PollnerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Suzanne Kosmas; Chief of Staff, Rep. Tim Mahoney12 filingsthrough 2025
Michael FriedbergHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Rail Subcommittee, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; Professional Staff, House Appropriations Committee9 filingsthrough 2025
Mark HolmanBlank Rome Government Relations6 filingsthrough 2008
Leslie PollnerManatt, Phelps, and PhillipsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Suzanne Kosmas; Chief of Staff, Rep. Tim Mahoney5 filingsthrough 2026
Melissa Cortese FoxmanBlank Rome Government Relations5 filingsthrough 2008
Christopher ArmstrongHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Attorney, Office of Special Counsel; Investigative Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Oversight Counsel, House Ways and Means Committee; Chief Oversight Counsel, Senate Finance Committee4 filingsthrough 2025
Mark ViethCavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.4 filingsthrough 2008
NICHOLAS G CAVAROCCHI srCavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.4 filingsthrough 2008
Adrianna Lenora WilliamsManatt, Phelps, and PhillipsCovered position: Special Assistant for the Briefing Book, Special Assistant for Congressional & Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy3 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew KinsmanBlank Rome Government Relations3 filingsthrough 2008
