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.
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: yelp-inc.
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.
LBR
23 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$550K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
6 filings
$860K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
6 filings
$550K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$100K 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.
114th Congress
Consumer Review Freedom Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5111114th CongressConsumer Review Fairness Act of 20167 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1865115th CongressAllow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
S. 1693115th CongressStop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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.
Thomas Allen HawksMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Minority Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Aide, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran.9 filingsthrough 2017
Kathryn Christensen MillsMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, Deputy Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Senior Legislative Counsel, Rep. Zoe Lofgren.9 filingsthrough 2017
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference Office of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the Minority Whip; Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Admin. Assistant, Rep. Sue Myrick9 filingsthrough 2017
John MulliganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director and Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Smith9 filingsthrough 2017
CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jrMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; Consultant, Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles; Counsel, Senate Committee on the Judiciary9 filingsthrough 2017
Katharine ListerMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce; Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Communications Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Communications Director, Rep. Adam Smith; Staff Assistant, Sen. John Kerry8 filingsthrough 2017
Stephanie MartzMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senator Charles Schumer; Special Assistant and Senior Counsel to the President, Office of White House Counsel8 filingsthrough 2017
Dan HenkeMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Staff Assistant, Acting Scheduler, Legislative Correspondent, Senator Pat Roberts7 filingsthrough 2017
Patrick KirbyDentons US LLPCovered position: Legal Extern, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Legal Intern, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; Regulatory Intern, CFTC; Foreign Affairs Intern, US State Department3 filingsthrough 2023
Daniel J GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. McMillan; COS, Rep Riley; LD, Rep Martini; Sr LA, Rep. Franks.3 filingsthrough 2016
Bryan CunninghamPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: LC Sen. Gregg; Intern, Sen. Bennett; Policy Advsr & LA, Sen Ensign; LA Rep LoBiondo.3 filingsthrough 2016
Jon GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Dpty CoS & Policy Dir-Sen.Kyl/GOP Whip Ofc; Policy Cnsl-Sen Kyl/GOP Whip Ofc; Dpty Assoc Dir (Senate), OMB, Leg. Aff; Policy Cnsl/Analyst-Sen Kyl/Sen Rep Plcy Cmte; Leg.Cnsl, Rep Frelinghuysen; Law Clerk-DoT Amtrak Reform Cnsl; Intern-Rep Hefley3 filingsthrough 2016
Matthew CuttsSquire Patton Boggs1 filingthrough 2020
Patrick KirbySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Aug-Dec 2014: Legal Extern, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; May-Aug 2013: Legal Intern, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network;
May-Aug 2008: Regulatory Intern, CFTC;
May-Aug 2007: Foreign Affairs Intern, US State Department1 filingthrough 2020
Joseph B HoeferMonument Advocacy1 filingthrough 2017
Ashley HoyYelp Inc.1 filingthrough 2016
C Stewart VerderyYelp Inc.1 filingthrough 2016
Andrew HowellYelp Inc.1 filingthrough 2016
John MulliganYelp Inc.1 filingthrough 2016
Kate MillsYelp Inc.1 filingthrough 2016
T A HawksYelp Inc.1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 17 of 36 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
