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.
Kristi RemingtonWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Committee on Government Reform35 filingsthrough 2024
Ashley DavisWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President35 filingsthrough 2024
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: vapor-technology-association.
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.
16 filings
$940K on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
11 filings
$380K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
8 filings
$300K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$70K 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.
S. 142114th CongressChild Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2021
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.
Shimon SteinWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Program Manager, US Department of Justice; Legislative Correspondent, Senator John Ashcroft; Paid Intern, Representative Robert Aderholt
35 filingsthrough 2024
Craig KalkutWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Director/Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Analyst, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, Legislative Assistant, Special Assistant to Chief Staff, Senator Kent Conrad21 filingsthrough 2024
Ryan CostelloRyan Costello StrategiesCovered position: US Congressman, PA-6 (2015-2019)12 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia BrownWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Ron Kind12 filingsthrough 2018
Christopher BukiWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative John Culberson; Legislative Assistant/Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative Bill Shuster; Legislative Director/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative David McKinley10 filingsthrough 2024
Edward P AyoobBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senator Harry Reid; Counsel Asst. Majority Leader9 filingsthrough 2020
Kristi RemingtonS-3 GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee7 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher BukiS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative John Culberson; Legislative Assistant/Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative Bill Shuster; Legislative Director/Deputy Chief of Staff, Representative David McKinley7 filingsthrough 2026
Ashley DavisS-3 GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President7 filingsthrough 2026
Shimon SteinS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Policy Advisory, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Program Manager, US Department of Justice, Legislative Correspondent, Senator John Ashcroft; Paid Intern, Representative Robert Aderholt7 filingsthrough 2026
NOE GARCIA iiiForward GlobalCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist; Associate Political Director, The White House; Senior Advisor, Public Affairs, US Treasury Department; Public Liaison, US Treasury Department; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Kay Hutchison5 filingsthrough 2026
Leah CharetteForward Global5 filingsthrough 2026
Michael RubinoForward GlobalCovered position: Senior Advisor to Secretary, Health and Human Services5 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas MathiasenForward Global5 filingsthrough 2026
Lizzy IrwinForward Global5 filingsthrough 2026
Emmett MartinForward GlobalCovered position: Intern, Rep. Rob Menendez5 filingsthrough 2026
Craig KalkutS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Director/Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Analyst, Senate Budget Committee; Counsel, Legislative Assistant, Special Assistant to Chief Staff, Senator Kent Conrad5 filingsthrough 2025
Brandt HershmanBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: District Director Rep. Steve Buyer.5 filingsthrough 2020
RON L MILLER iiBarnes & Thornburg, LLP4 filingsthrough 2020
Jane Campbell SpencerFora PartnersCovered position: Midwest Political Director, White House Office of Political Affairs (January 2009 - December 2010)3 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 20 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
