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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Retirement
RET
62 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$340K 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.
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Asst. to President Bush & Deputy Dir.OPL, Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts, Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker47 filingsthrough 2026
Jason LevyCovington & Burling LLP31 filingsthrough 2023
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Committee, Staff Director, Deputy Staff Director; General Counsel (Detailed), House Select Committee on Voting Irregularities; House Committee on Appropriations, Professional Staff, House Office of Parliamentarian, Assoc., Asst., Clerk
The filings
The 20 most recent of 63 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: western-conference-of-teamsters-pension-trust.
spend on filings that named this issue
30 filingsthrough 2022
Morgan SchreursCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Oversight & Investigations Law Clerk (May-July 2016, August-December 2017)29 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew ShapankaCovington & Burling LLP13 filingsthrough 2019
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: WH Office of Leg. Affairs, Spec. Asst. to the President; Senator Michael F. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Sen. Maria Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel9 filingsthrough 2018
Elizabeth BellCovington & Burling LLP6 filingsthrough 2013
Paul RayCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA); Senior Advisor to the OMB Director; Acting Administrator of OIRA; Associate Administrator of OIRA; Counselor to the U.S. Secretary of Labor.1 filingthrough 2026
Howard BermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 8 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
