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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
14 filings
$620K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$200K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
David ThompsonBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (1999-2002); Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (1993-1999)8 filingsthrough 2021
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert.8 filingsthrough 2020
Margaret Cekuta
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 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: violet-power.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Capitol Counsel LLC
Covered position: Associate Chief of Staff, Council of Economic Advisers (White House); Director for Eurasia, Russia, and Germany (USTR).
8 filingsthrough 2020
Spencer AbrahamBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy (2001-2005); Senator, U.S. Senate (1995-2001)4 filingsthrough 2020
Josh KardonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Ron Wyden; Legislative Director/Press Secretary, Senator Ron Wyden; and Staff Director, House Government Affairs Committee.3 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
