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.
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
4 filings
$310K 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.
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Galen RoehlAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: LC, Sen. Brownback, Apr. 04-Dec. 04; LA/Sen Jud. Comm, 05-08; Snr
Pol Adsr, Sen Judiciary Comm 08-10; LD, Rep. Connie Mack, Aug 10-
Feb 11; Prof Staff Mmbr, Sen Pat Tommey/ Sen Commerce Comm, 2011-
13; Plcy Anlst, Sen Repub Policy Comm 2013-145 filingsthrough 2020
CHARLIE W JOHNSON ivAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld5 filingsthrough 2020
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld4 filingsthrough 2020
Matt HawkinsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intern for Rep McCaul. Jul-Aug 12; staff assist, leg Corrspndnt for Rep
Carter, Sep 12-Dec 13
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: zp-better-together-llc.
Julie NolanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dep.CoS and LD, Nov.17-Nov. 18; LD, Nov.16-17; LA Oct. 15-16 to
Rep. Patrick Meehan; Staff Asst, Sen. Richard Lugar Jan. 06-Jan. 07.3 filingsthrough 2020
Louis AgnelloAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Snr Cnsl, Joint Econ Committee, Mar 17-Nov 17; Leg cnsl, Sen Heinrich, Apr 14-Mar 17; Leg Asst, Rep Doris Matsui, Dec 11-Apr 14; Leg Asst, Senate Judiciary Committee, May 09-Aug 09; Research Analyst, Senate Small Business Committee, Jun 07-Aug 083 filingsthrough 2020
Caryn Dyson LesterAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Prof staff mbr to Sen Breaux, 2003-04; Intrn to Sen Mikulski, 19993 filingsthrough 2020
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-042 filingsthrough 2020
Henry Alden TerhuneAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2020
Christina HaleyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2020
Virgil MillerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Policy Fellow, Rep. Edolphus Towns, Aug06 - Feb07; Prof Staff Mber, Commit on Eng and Com, Feb 07 - Jan 11; Health Policy Advisor, Rep. John D. Dingell, Jan 09 - Jan 11; CoS, Rep. Cedric Richmond, Jan 11 - Mar 19.1 filingthrough 2020
Joshua TeitelbaumAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 2014-2016; Staff Director, US Senate HELP Subcommittee on Children and Families, 2013-2014; Legislative Assistant, Senator Kay Hagan, 2011-2013; Legislative Counsel, Congressman Steve Israel, 2009-20111 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 9 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.