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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
15 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
15 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Bryan ZumwaltFti Government AffairsCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 15 Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works 12-14; Counsel, Sen. David Vitter 09-12; Counsel, Rep. Bilbray 06-07; Clerk, Comm on Natural Resources 05-06.11 filingsthrough 2025
Russ KelleyFti Government AffairsCovered position: Sr Advisor, Dem. Caucus 17-19; Counsel, Comm on Trans & Infra. 15-17; Leg Dir & Counsel, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici 12-15; Comm Advisor, Office of the Dem. Leader 03-06; Dir of Radio, Democrat Comms Committee 01-03; Press Asst, Dem. Comms Committee 00-0111 filingsthrough 2025
John SteitzFti Government AffairsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior LA, Sen. John Kennedy 17-21; Senior PSM and PSM, Sen. Small Business Committee 15-17; LA and LC, Sen. David Vitter 11-15
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: westmoreland-mining-llc.
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.
10 filings
$760K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
10 filings
$740K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
10 filings
$740K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
8 filings
$610K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$390K 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.
11 filings
through 2025
Ian Thomas Alexander WhitsonFti Government AffairsCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. David Rouzer 22; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer 21-22; Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer 17-21; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. David Rouzer 16-17; Staff Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer 15-1611 filingsthrough 2025
Mickeala York CarterFti Government AffairsCovered position: Deputy Director of Communications, United States Department of Agriculture, 21-23 (political appointment); Director of Communications and External Affairs, Outreach Coordinator, House Agriculture Committee, 19-21; Communications Director, Legislative10 filingsthrough 2025
John SteitzRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior LA, Sen. John Kennedy; Senior PSM and PSM, Sen. Small Business Committee; LA and LC, Sen. David Vitter.7 filingsthrough 2026
Russ KelleyRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Dem. Caucus; Counsel, Comm on Trans & Infra; Leg Dir & Counsel, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici; Comm Advisor, Office of the Dem. Leader; Dir of Radio, Democrat Comms Committee; Press Asst, Dem. Comms Committee.7 filingsthrough 2026
Bryan ZumwaltRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 15 Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; Counsel, Sen. David Vitter; Counsel, Rep. Bilbray; Clerk, Comm on Natural Resources.7 filingsthrough 2026
Ian Thomas Alexander WhitsonRidgeline Advocacy Group LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. David Rouzer; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. David Rouzer; Staff Assistant, Rep. David Rouzer.7 filingsthrough 2026
Antonia O'MalleyRidgeline Advocacy Group LLC3 filingsthrough 2025
Evan Daniel BlairRidgeline Advocacy Group LLC1 filingthrough 2026
Luis Eduardo Camarena KuchleFti Government Affairs1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 9 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
