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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
George S. HelmyD-New Jersey
Bills: S. 4917
10 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Barbara A. PateDavis & Harman LLP65 filingsthrough 2024
Kent A MasonDavis & Harman LLP55 filingsthrough 2024
Michael L HadleyDavis & Harman LLP47 filingsthrough 2026
Chris L GastonDavis & Harman LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Rush Holt46 filingsthrough 2026
Ben BaraskyVanguard Group37 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 139 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: vanguard-group.
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.
TAX
92 filings
$37.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
41 filings
$24.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
33 filings
$20.6M on those filings
Banking
BAN
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Postal
POS
2 filings
$830K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$600K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$500K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$340K 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.
117th Congress
Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022
15 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1770117th CongressRetirement Security and Savings Act of 202115 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1550114th CongressFinancial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1534112th CongressSAVE Act of 201110 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.
through 2026
Ann L CombsVanguard Group34 filingsthrough 2018
Gerard M GoldenVanguard Group31 filingsthrough 2020
Brian S MattesVanguard Group30 filingsthrough 2015
Carolyn Noble DownsVanguard GroupCovered position: Former employee of a member of Congress (Rep John Campbell 2009-2013)27 filingsthrough 2025
Jillien Williams FloresVanguard Group26 filingsthrough 2021
Adam McmahonDavis & Harman LLP20 filingsthrough 2026
Marliss McmanusVanguard GroupCovered position: Sen. Mitch McConnell 12/1997-7/1998; House Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs 7/1998-12/1999; House Committee on Financial Services 01/2015-01/2019; Rep. Bill Huizenga 01/2011-09/202119 filingsthrough 2026
Derek B DornDavis & Harman LLPCovered position: Senior Finance Counsel, Senator Bingaman16 filingsthrough 2015
Alex HulaVanguard Group12 filingsthrough 2019
Natalie BejVanguard Group11 filingsthrough 2021
JAMES M DELAPLANE jrDavis & Harman LLP11 filingsthrough 2011
George GilbertVanguard Group8 filingsthrough 2021
JAMES M DELAPLANE jrVanguard Group6 filingsthrough 2013
Ricardo DelfinVanguard GroupCovered position: U.S. House of Representatives3 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 5 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.