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.
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: w-l-gore-associates.
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.
49 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
44 filings
$7.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
18 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$270K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$80K 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.
115th Congress
State Mineral Revenue Protection Act
12 filingsthrough 2018
S. 925115th CongressVETS Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1295114th CongressTrade Preferences Extension Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2735115th CongressGSP Footwear Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2032115th CongressGSP Footwear Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1267114th CongressTrade Preferences Extension Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4318115th CongressMiscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 20187 filingsthrough 2018
S. 925114th CongressWomen on the Twenty Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 535116th CongressPFAS Action Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 184115th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
S. 108115th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2108115th CongressMiscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Raphael GoodsteinW.L. Gore & AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Debbie Stabenow (2002-2004)21 filingsthrough 2026
James BarnetteSteptoe LLPCovered position: Gen Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Comm (1995-2005; 2011-2012)17 filingsthrough 2023
Christopher CaronSteptoe LLPCovered position: LD, Sr. Policy Advisor, Dep COS; Rep. Tom Cole14 filingsthrough 2022
Lisa Mortier WaltzmanSteptoe LLPCovered position: Policy Director, Representative Sue Myrick (2002-2005)10 filingsthrough 2021
Rowan BostSteptoe LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide, Office of Senator Susan Collins; Legislative Correspondent, Office of Senator Susan Collins; Intern, Office of Senator Susan Collins; Senate Page, Senator Olympia Snowe7 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew SametSorini Strategic Advisors F/K/A Sorini, Samet, & Associates, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir, US Sen. D. Moynihan; Dep. Under Sec., Dep of Labor6 filingsthrough 2016
