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.
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant,
Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood
(2001-2002)26 filingsthrough 2026
Derrick M WhiteForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Communications Director, Sen. Orrin Hatch (2000-2001)25 filingsthrough 2026
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard
Shelby (2002)23 filingsthrough 2025
Cynthia Brown
The filings
The 20 most recent of 48 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: vir-biotechnology-inc.
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.
TAX
18 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$930K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
11 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
10 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$510K 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. 3258117th CongressFlu Vaccine Act5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 866118th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act4 filingsthrough 2023
S. 3799117th CongressPREVENT Pandemics Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3938118th CongressBuild It in America Act3 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 1304117th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7410117th CongressAmerican Made Medicine Act3 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7505117th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to add a new medical research component to the credit for increasing research activities.3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 476118th CongressMaintaining Investments in New Innovation Act2 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Forbes-Tate
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Rob Kind (1999-2002)
22 filingsthrough 2025
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate20 filingsthrough 2024
Kristina DunklinForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Susan Brooks (2018-2019); Legislative Director, Rep. David Valadao (2015-2018); Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Valadao (2014-2015)20 filingsthrough 2024
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)15 filingsthrough 2023
Darren WillcoxW Strategies, LLCCovered position: ​Asst. for Policy, Speaker Dennis Hastert; Admin. Asst., Legislative Director, Legislative Asst., Cong. Porter Goss; House Rules Comm. Assoc., Subcommittee Staff Director14 filingsthrough 2023
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate12 filingsthrough 2024
Paul DioguardiForbes-TateCovered position: Director, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (2009-2015); Chief of Staff, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Labor (1999-2001)11 filingsthrough 2024
Douglas StossVir Biotechnology, Inc.Covered position: Cong. John Shadegg - Legislative Assistant, Subcommittee Staff Director, Chief of Staff, Policy Director; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Senior Counselor, Chief of Staff11 filingsthrough 2023
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate10 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)8 filingsthrough 2022
Arthur Dennis SidneyForbes-TateCovered position: LD & Chief Counsel, Rep. Jackson Lee (2008-2009); Chief of staff and chief counsel, Rep. Johnson (2009-2020)7 filingsthrough 2025
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)6 filingsthrough 2022
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Doug Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Doug Jones (2018-2019)3 filingsthrough 2026
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2014-2016); Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2008); Staff Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2005)3 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 14 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
