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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
29 filings
$2.8M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
Jeffrey LeveyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)27 filingsthrough 2025
Jessica CameronErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: House Ways and Means Committee - 2011-2014, House Speaker Paul Ryan 2017-201827 filingsthrough 2025
Rebecca BurchErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)26 filingsthrough 2025
Lauren RubinErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Legislative Director - Rep. Suzan DelBene - 2015-1815 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: working-group-on-competitive-international-taxation-informal-coalition.
115th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
1 filingthrough 2018
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.
Ryan AbrahamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Senate Finance Committee - 04-09, SFC Tax Counsel - 2010-188 filingsthrough 2022
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 93-98 Legislative Assistant, Office of Sen. Hatch; 03-06 Staff Dir. Senate Committee on Small Business6 filingsthrough 2019
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Press Secretary - Sen. Finance Comm. - 1999-2001; Public Affairs - Treasury Dept.- 2001-04; Communications Dir. - President's Advisory on Fed. Tax Reform - 20054 filingsthrough 2022
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)3 filingsthrough 2018
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 96-00 LD to Rep. John Kasich; 01-11 Deputy CoS to Rep. Tiberi3 filingsthrough 2018
Lisa WolskiErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Tax counsel, Sen. Jon Kyl, 2003-07; staff director, Senate Finance Tax & IRS Oversight Subcomm., 2005-06; deputy chief of staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip, 2008-09; chief of staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip, 2009-20112 filingsthrough 2026
Tommy BrownErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Senior Advisor, Treasury Ofc. of Leg. Affairs, 2024-25; Leg. Director, Rep. Brad Schneider, 2022-24 (also policy advisor, 2021-22 and leg. assistant, 2018-21); Legislative Aide, Sen. Sherrod Brown, 2017-18 (also leg. correspondent for Brown, 2015-17)2 filingsthrough 2026
Ray BeemanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 01-05 Legislation Counsel, JTC; 11-14 Tax Counsel/ Special Advisor-Tax Reform, W&M2 filingsthrough 2018
Sean HaileyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 08-14 Tax Advisor, W&M2 filingsthrough 2018
William RysErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2026
Bill RysErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Legislative director, Rep. Melissa Hart, 2001-07; deputy executive secretary, Office of the Executive Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department, 20071 filingthrough 2025
Robert J SchellhasErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-02 CoS to Rep. Rob Portman1 filingthrough 2019
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 97-98 LA to Rep. Xavier Becerra; 98-01 Tax Counsel to Rep. Robert Matsui1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 13 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
