Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ustc
North Carolina
66 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2026 · latest filed Jul 14, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
58 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
37 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Tobacco
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 4134 112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that any person who, for a commercial purpose, makes available for consumer use a machine capable of producing tobacco products, is a manufacturer of tobacco products.3 filingsthrough 2012
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.
- J Brad Edwards Jenkins Hill Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Jesse Helms75 filingsthrough 2026
- Robin Tallon Jenkins Hill Consulting, LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress49 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 66 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: ustc.