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.
Erskine W WellsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep COS Sen. Wicker; COS Rep. Palazzo; Leg Asst Sen Wicker; Intern Sen. Cochran31 filingsthrough 2025
Walker RobertsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep. COS, House Intl. Rel. Comm.; Sp. Asst. to Pres.; Policy Analyst, Senate22 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph Gary LaiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sp. Asst. to POTUS for Leg Affairs; LD Sen. Wicker; Mil. Leg. Asst. Sen Wicker; Policy Advisor Sen. Voinovich; Policy Advisor Sen. Hagel; Intern U.S. Trade and Development Agency22 filingsthrough 2025
Michael Wessel
The filings
The 20 most recent of 62 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-digital-corporation.
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.
ENV
7 filings
$180K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$850K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$590K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$440K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$290K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$120K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
1 filing
$10K 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.
119th Congress
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1071119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
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.
The Wessel Group Incorporated
Covered position: General Counsel, House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt
20 filingsthrough 2025
Christopher Reed EckholdThe Wessel Group IncorporatedCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Randy Forbes20 filingsthrough 2025
Maya SeidenBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Intern, WH Counsels Office; Intern, Rep. Sam Gejdenson; Sp. Asst to Cab Sec., WH; Advisor to CoS, Energy Dept.; Sp Asst to Sec of Energy; Sen Advisor, Off of Dep. Sec of State; CoS Office of the Dep Sec of State for Management and Res.19 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew J LewinBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Dennis Moore; Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Max Sandlin; Intern, House Min. Leader Richard Gephardt17 filingsthrough 2025
Justin RzepkaBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg. Aide Sen. Ensign16 filingsthrough 2025
HALEY REEVES BARBOUR srBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing9 filingsthrough 2019
Stacey DionWestern Digital CorporationCovered position: Policy Advisor/Counsel, House Committee on Education & Workforce (8/2005 - 2/2006); Policy Advisor/Counsel, House Rep. Majority Leader (Rep. Boehner-3/2006-1/2007); Policy Advisor/Counsel, House Rep. Minority Leader (Rep. Boehner-2/2007-11/2008)5 filingsthrough 2026
Dan RenbergArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Member, Board of Directors, Ex-Im Bank; Leg. Director and Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Arlen Specter3 filingsthrough 2016
Joshua RomeroWestern Digital CorporationCovered position: White House Liaison- State Dept (4/24 - 1/25); White House Liaison/Special Advisor- U.S. Peace Corps (10/22 - 4/24); Congrl Approps Liaison- U.S. Air Force (Assist Sec Fin. Management & Comptroller (1/22 - 10/22)1 filingthrough 2026
Joe EllisBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Sr. Lead POTUS Advance Rep; HHS Asst Secy for Admin & Mgt; COS to Rep. Max Miller; POTUS Adv Assoc1 filingthrough 2025
Christopher TraciThe Wessel Group IncorporatedCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Government Reform Committee1 filingthrough 2021
Alex ManningArentfox Schiff LLP1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 14 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
