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
8 filings
$170K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$220K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.Res. 643116th CongressRecognizing women's cardiovascular health as a critical health care priority that affects every State and contributes to increased health care costs, and promoting the necessity of increased awareness of and education on the symptoms for heart disease among women, gender-specific cardiovascular disease research, and policy action to alleviate the risks of heart disease among women.2 filingsthrough 2020
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Assistant, Sen. Adams; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Eckart; Administrative Assistant, House Majority Leader; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff, House Minority Leader6 filingsthrough 2022
Keith CastaldoAvoq, LLCCovered position: Rep. Bill Pascrell (2010-2013) - Economic Policy Advisor and Tax Counsel; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (2013-2021) - Finance Counsel 2013-2014, General Counsel 2014-2021.
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: womens-heart-alliance-a-project-of-tides-center.
H.R. 643116th CongressTo prohibit the provision of United States security assistance to the Government of Saudi Arabia, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2020
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.
Kristina KennedyAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Counsel, Counsel, and Legislative Director, Rep. Sarbanes1 filingthrough 2019
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee1 filingthrough 2019
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip1 filingthrough 2019
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Finance; Acting Chief, Healthcare, Senate Finance; Professional Staff, Health Senate Finance; Leg Asst., Senator Baucus1 filingthrough 2019
Ed KutlerAvoq, LLC1 filingthrough 2019
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, Rep. Rangel; Dir., WH Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships; US Dept. of Commerce; CoS, Rep. Jeffries1 filingthrough 2019
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 10 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
