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-southern-california.
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.
89 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
71 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
52 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
43 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
43 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
40 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
10 filings
$930K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
7 filings
$500K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
6 filings
$830K 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.
116th Congress
Clean Water Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Act
10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2968116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.10 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2474116th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 202010 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1310114th CongressCampus Accountability and Safety Act9 filingsthrough 2015
S. 590114th CongressCampus Accountability and Safety Act9 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 6776116th CongressJOBS Credit Act of 20208 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3109116th CongressInterregional Transmission Planning Improvement Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2019
S. 227114th CongressStrengthening Education through Research Act8 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4186113th CongressFIRST Act of 20148 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1806114th CongressAmerica COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3178114th CongressStrengthening Transparency in Higher Education Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3179114th CongressEmpowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act7 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.
through 2014
Patrick TempletonTempleton and CompanyCovered position: n/a24 filingsthrough 2014
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Senator Chuck Hagel Staff Assistant, Senator Chuck Hagel14 filingsthrough 2021
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd13 filingsthrough 2021
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Assistant,
Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Correspondent, Senator Richard
Shelby13 filingsthrough 2021
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, House Speaker Boehner Floor Assistant, House
Speaker Boehner Legislative Assistant, John Boehner Staff Member,
Pat Tiberi13 filingsthrough 2021
Kaetlyn CordingleyLewis-Burke Associates, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator John Walsh Legislative Correspondent, Office of Senator Jon Tester13 filingsthrough 2017
Jennifer GrodskyUniversity of Southern CaliforniaCovered position: Leg. Director, Rep. Solis & Leg. Asst, Rep. Dixon13 filingsthrough 2012
Alison E ThompsonLewis-Burke Associates, LLC12 filingsthrough 2014
Daniel SennottHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Minority Staff Director, House Armed Services Cmte.; Minority General Counsel, House Armed Services Cmte.; Professional Staff Member, Staff Lead and Counsel, Military Personnel Subcmte., House Armed Services Cmte.11 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 37 of 88 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
