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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
59 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
34 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3362115th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2839116th CongressMaking appropriations for Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
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: woolpert.
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.
34 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
34 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
34 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
21 filings
$620K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
19 filings
$530K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$550K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
6 filings
$120K 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.
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.
Jenny Dijames
Alignment Government Strategies
Covered position: LA and LD, Rep. Bud Cramer
35 filingsthrough 2026
David RuddAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Fritz Hollings35 filingsthrough 2026
Tracy D TaylorAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Sch. C at Agency for International Development30 filingsthrough 2026
CLIFTON RONALD ST. CLAIR WILLIAMS iiiTaft Stettinius & Hollister LLP DBA Taft Advisors LLC Fka (Taft, Stettinius & HoCovered position: District Director Rep. Marcia L. Fudge9 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick PetteyAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Bob Smith7 filingsthrough 2019
Jennifer OlsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Lindsey Graham; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Lindsey Graham; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Kolbe7 filingsthrough 2019
James HeimbachTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Special Asst to the President, The White House; CoS Senator Sherrod Brown; FCC - CSB and Congressional Affairs; OLA, The White House7 filingsthrough 2019
Matthew LeffingwellTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services Coalitions, House Appropriations Cmte.; CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Deputy CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Projects Director/Press Secretary, Rep. Mark Kirk7 filingsthrough 2019
