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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Small Business
SMB
21 filings
$380K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
17 filings
$290K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1744118th CongressTransparency in Government Contracts Act4 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Nigel StephensPhoenix Strategies Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Yvette Clarke; Professional Staff - Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Legislative Assistant - Rep. Albert Wynn20 filingsthrough 2026
Gregory WillisPhoenix Strategies Inc.Covered position: Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Rep. Frederica Wilson14 filingsthrough 2026
Darrel ThompsonThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Senior Advisor to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid; Senior Policy Advisor and Director of Member Services to House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt5 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: us-black-chambers-inc.
fees reported
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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.
ECN
16 filings
$280K on those filings
Defense
DEF
14 filings
$240K 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.
