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.
Veterans
VET
43 filings
$8.1M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 32 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1139118th CongressGUARD VA Benefits Act16 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1822118th CongressPLUS for Veterans Act of 202316 filingsthrough 2024
Jose BorjonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Rep V.Gonzalez, Jan 17- Feb 21; Snr Advsr/Dpty CoS, Rep F.Vela, Jun 14- Jan 17; Comm Drctr, Rep Gallego, Dec 13- Jan 15; Drctr Strtgy/Comm, Rep Reyes, Nov 11- Jan 13; Press Sec, Rep Cuellar, Jan 11- Nov 11; Comm Drctr, Rep Ortiz, Mar 09- Jan 1113 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy W JenkinsBallard Spahr LLP8 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 43 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: veterans-guardian-va-claim-consulting-llc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
118th Congress
GUARD VA Benefits Act of 2023
14 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1656119th CongressPLUS for Veterans Act of 202512 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1732119th CongressGUARD VA Benefits Act11 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3132119th CongressCHOICE for Veterans Act of 202510 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1789118th CongressPLUS for Veterans Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7158118th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 East Battles Road in Santa Maria, California, as the "Larry Lavagnino Post Office Building".8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2678118th CongressOutbound Investment Transparency Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2852118th CongressFlood Insurance Affordability Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 596118th CongressMilitary Spouse Hiring Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2971118th CongressVeterans Claims Education Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4569118th CongressVeteran Service Recognition Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
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
Maria TripplaarBallard Spahr LLPCovered position: Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir., Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir. & Counsel, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, Comm. on Veterans' Affairs, House of Rep.8 filingsthrough 2026
John BlomstromVeterans Guardian VA Claim Consulting LLC8 filingsthrough 2026
Henry BoatrightVeterans Guardian VA Claim Consulting LLCCovered position: Leg. Intern - Rep Chip Roy (Jan - May 2024)7 filingsthrough 2026
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld7 filingsthrough 2024
Christina Marie BaroneAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intern to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, January 2013-April 2013; and August 2014-May 2015.4 filingsthrough 2026
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-042 filingsthrough 2023
