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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
106 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
59 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 109 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3459114th CongressProtecting Local Business Opportunity Act10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3970110th CongressTax Reduction and Reform Act of 2007
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Gregory NickersonThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Dir., Ways&Means Subcom. on Select Reven.68 filingsthrough 2026
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson ; ; Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen46 filingsthrough 2026
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
The filings
The 20 most recent of 156 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: yum-brands.
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.
FOO
17 filings
$805K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$475K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$450K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
7 filings
$310K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$245K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Banking
BAN
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.
8 filings
through 2008
S. 803116th CongressRestoring Investment in Improvements Act7 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 772115th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20245 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 261115th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1430114th CongressPermanent CFC Look-Through Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2015114th CongressProtecting Local Business Opportunity Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2045114th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 727112th CongressBipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4306111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4351110th CongressAMT Relief Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Mike CareyR-Ohio-AL
Bills: H.R. 1347, H.R. 1414, H.R. 1752 +10 more
417 filings
2 lobbyists
Jodey C. ArringtonR-Texas-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673 +3 more
402 filings
2 lobbyists
Darin LaHoodR-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 1347, H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673 +7 more
397 filings
2 lobbyists
Vern BuchananR-Florida-AL
Bills: H.R. 10380, H.R. 1062, H.R. 1347 +9 more
395 filings
2 lobbyists
David KustoffR-Tennessee-AL
Bills: H.R. 1347, H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673 +6 more
387 filings
2 lobbyists
Blake D. MooreR-Utah-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673, H.R. 5225 +7 more
385 filings
2 lobbyists
Adrian SmithR-Nebraska-AL
Bills: H.R. 1347, H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673 +7 more
384 filings
2 lobbyists
Randy FeenstraR-Iowa-AL
Bills: H.R. 1062, H.R. 1347, H.R. 1990 +7 more
377 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
46 filings
through 2026
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education ; ; Special Assistant to the President ; ; Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House46 filingsthrough 2026
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Chip Pickering ; ; Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering46 filingsthrough 2026
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Aide, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Appropriations Coordinator, Senator McConnell ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell44 filingsthrough 2025
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence42 filingsthrough 2025
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor41 filingsthrough 2024
Brian DiffellThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chief Deputy Whip38 filingsthrough 2023
Jan FowlerThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Intern; Representative McCrery36 filingsthrough 2019
Eric ZulkoskyFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Director of Member Services, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, LD, Rep. Scalise, LA, Rep. Scalise, LA, Sen. Johanns, LC, Sen. Johanns, LC Sen. Dole, Mail Manager, Sen. Dole, Staff Assistant, Sen. Dole33 filingsthrough 2025
Zachary Austin PriceThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant to Sen. Dan Coats27 filingsthrough 2026
Kelli BriggsThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, 12th Congressional District of Ohio; Chief of Staff, D.C. Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Staff Assistant, Intern for Rep. Tiberi17 filingsthrough 2022
John ClineC2 Group, LLC15 filingsthrough 2013
Thomas CrawfordC2 Group, LLC14 filingsthrough 2013
Danielle MaurerFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Rules Committee ; ; Professional Staff Member, House Rules Committee ; ; Senior Floor Assistant, House Majority Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Republican Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Speaker ; ; Staff Assistant, Offie of Management and Budget ; ; Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB12 filingsthrough 2017
Lesley ElliottC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Senate12 filingsthrough 2012
Michael HansonC2 Group, LLC12 filingsthrough 2012
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrC2 Group, LLC10 filingsthrough 2010
Scott StylesFti Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions9 filingsthrough 2014
Thomas CrawfordFti Government Affairs8 filingsthrough 2014
G Hunter BatesC2 Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2010
James Max PedrottiThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Carol Miller7 filingsthrough 2026
David Patrick RobertsonFti Government Affairs6 filingsthrough 2014
Noushin JahanianThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Policy Advisor, Senate Democratic Policy Comm.6 filingsthrough 2011
Jefferies MurrayFti Government Affairs5 filingsthrough 2014
Aleix JarvisFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: 95: Staff Assistant to Rep. Charles Taylor5 filingsthrough 2009
William Kirk BlalockFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: ...of Public Liaison, WH5 filingsthrough 2009
Donald L FierceFierce, Isakowitz & Blalock5 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 33 of 46 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
