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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
40 filings
$1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
31 filings
$710K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: will-county.
19 filings
$430K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
16 filings
$330K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
10 filings
$264K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$44K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
2 filings
$40K 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.
117th Congress
State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
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.
John BairSmith GarsonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent - Rep. Ron DeSantis
5 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 4 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
