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.
Manufacturing
MAN
6 filings
$800K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$300K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Sarah HeltonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner5 filingsthrough 2026
Erik Michael BerdyMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Legislative Affairs; Legislative Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army; Deputy Military Legislative Assistant, Sen. James Inhofe5 filingsthrough 2026
Lucia AlonzoMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Constituent Services Representative, Legislative Correspondent, Policy Aide, Sen. Claire McCaskill4 filingsthrough 2026
Brett Ewer
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: vortex-optics.
$200K
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.
2 filings
$300K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
2 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 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.
Michael Best Strategies LLC
Covered position: Press Intern, Sen. Elizabeth Warren
4 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan LosakMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Intern, House Edu/Workforce Cmte; Leg Correspondent, Rep. John Kline; Leg Correspondent, Leg Aide, Leg Assistant, Sen. John Boozman4 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel SpiveyMichael Best Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2026
Frederick VaughanCheckmate Government RelationsCovered position: Principal Deputy Asst. Secretary, Treasury Dept.; Deputy Asst. Secretary, Treasury Dept.; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Cmte.; Associate Director, The White House; Confidential Asst., Office of Management & Budget; Writer, The White House3 filingsthrough 2025
Charles McdowellCheckmate Government Relations3 filingsthrough 2025
CHRISTOPHER LACIVITA jrCheckmate Government Relations2 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
