Shawn H SmeallieCovered position: Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Asst. to Director for Legislative Affairs at the OMB1,494 filings153 clients · through 2026
David J UrbanCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter1,413 filings164 clients · through 2020
Manus CooneyCovered position: Staff Director & Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee1,240 filings96 clients · through 2026
Foreign interests disclosed
The 15 most frequently disclosed of 26 foreign entities named on this registrant's filings.
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Switzerland
4 filings
through 2012
Danone Sa
France
2 filings
through 2025
Axel Springer
The filings
The 20 most recent of 4,550 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: acg-advocacy.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $168.2M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 52 clients
513 filings
$16M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 44 clients
503 filings
$19.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 47 clients
474 filings
$21.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 50 clients
425 filings
$20M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 25 clients
275 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 24 clients
259 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 25 clients
222 filings
$11.6M on those filings
Housing
HOU · 14 clients
221 filings
$12.2M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 19 clients
213 filings
$11.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 24 clients
189 filings
$7.3M 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 money 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.
Chris IsraelCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce
972 filings77 clients · through 2026
Michael BarberaCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon882 filings82 clients · through 2026
Julie PhilpCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Sr. LA Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler Rep. Michael Burgess; LA and Scheduler Rep. Connie Morella; LA Ileana Ros-Lehtinen849 filings97 clients · through 2026
Sheryl CohenCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Christopher Dodd; Political Director, Senator Christopher Dodd; Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman614 filings53 clients · through 2026
Patrick C. GrantCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman515 filings51 clients · through 2026
Mary O'Dea Ahearn Allen317 filings47 clients · through 2022
James SmithCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Peter Deutsch273 filings34 clients · through 2015
Stephen PinkosCovered position: Policy Director/General Counsel, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for IP; Staff Director, House Judiciary Committee262 filings40 clients · through 2017
Eriade WilliamsCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director/Senior Policy Advisory/Legislative Counsel - Rep. Robert A Brady; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary - Rep. Albert Wynn213 filings39 clients · through 2021
Joshua F HurvitzCovered position: LD, Sr. LA & LA, Rep. Anthony Weiner189 filings42 clients · through 2010
Sarah Kohn159 filings26 clients · through 2026
Trista RoehlCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Representative John Shadegg; Legislative Assistant, Representative Chris Cox; Legislative Assistant, Pat Toomey158 filings20 clients · through 2015
Dana ColarulliCovered position: Director, Government Affairs PTO135 filings13 clients · through 2026
Tobias Rodill129 filings28 clients · through 2009
Ian P Musselman127 filings24 clients · through 2012
Sean Casey ByrneCovered position: Leadership Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer119 filings17 clients · through 2026
Cameron SewardCovered position: Director, Integral Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement - USTR111 filings33 clients · through 2026
Owen Reilly104 filings14 clients · through 2020
Joseph Nickerson101 filings13 clients · through 2023
DAVID F PEARCE jrCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Amo Houghton; Legislative Counsel, Representative Michael Castle101 filings16 clients · through 2015
Roberto Adrian Fierro97 filings25 clients · through 2022
Kris BalderstonCovered position: Special Representative for Global Partnerships, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; LD and Deputy COS, Senator Hillary Clinton; Special Asst. and Deputy Asst., President Bill Clinton; Deputy COS, Secretary of Labor77 filings8 clients · through 2026
Jamie SusskindCovered position: Legislative Director/Policy Adviser, Senator Marsha Blackburn; Chief of Staff/Legal Adviser, FCC; Chief Counsel/Legislative Counsel, Senator Deb Fischer; FCC Detailee, Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee71 filings21 clients · through 2026
Stuart ChapmanCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy; Chief of Staff, Rep. Zack Space; Press Secretary, Senator Jay Rockefeller; Press Secretary,Rep. Barbara Lee68 filings12 clients · through 2016
Preeti Turpuseema67 filings14 clients · through 2024
Brian Weir Fitzgerald67 filings9 clients · through 2014
Covered positions · 28 of 58 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
