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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
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: anthropic.
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 $0 in fees and $7.4M in expenses.
ENG · 1 client
3 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
2 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
2 filings
$3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
1 filing
$2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
1 filing
$2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
1 filing
$1M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN · 1 client
1 filing
$1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
1 filing
$1M 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.
Leah Harrelson GrahamCovered position: Leg Affairs Specialist, U.S. Dept of Commerce (Apr 2005-Dec 2007); Deputy Associate Director, The White House (Jan 2003-Apr 2005); Assistant, The White House (Feb 2002-Jan 2003); Assistant Scheduler, Office of the House Majority Whip (2001-2002)6 filings1 client · through 2026
Brian PetersCovered position: Press Assistant, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) (Dec. 2001-Oct. 2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) (Nov. 2003-May 2006)3 filings1 client · through 2026
Anthony CiminoCovered position: Financial Services Committee (Aug 2007-Feb 2012)2 filings1 client · through 2026
Benjamin MerkelCovered position: Special Asst, President and Senate Liaison (Jan 2024 - Jan 2025); Leg Director, Sen. Murray (May 2019 - Feb 2024); Leg Asst, Sen. Murray (Mar 2015 - Apr 2019); Leg Aide, Sen. Murray (June 2012 - Feb 2015); Staff Asst, Sen. Murray (Feb 2012-June 2012)2 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 8 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.
