Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Banking
BAN · 27 clients
372 filings
$14.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 26 clients
187 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Doyle BartlettCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill McCollum.777 filings65 clients · through 2026
Greg MesackCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Legislative Director, Rep. Bob Ney.637 filings55 clients · through 2019
Jennifer BendallCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Richard Shelby208 filings32 clients · through 2011
Christopher MccannellCovered position: ​Press Secretary, Rep. Paul Kanjorski; Press Secretary, Rep. Steny Hoyer; Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael McMahon; Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Crowley.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Bank of Montreal
Canada
1 filing
through 2018
Royal Bank of Canada
Canada
1 filing
through 2018
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.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 788 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: eris-group.
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 $25.2M in fees and $0 in expenses.
TAX · 29 clients
147 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 7 clients
111 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Housing
HOU · 11 clients
58 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 5 clients
55 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Insurance
INS · 9 clients
53 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 8 clients
45 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 3 clients
39 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 6 clients
25 filings
$510K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 3 clients
20 filings
$790K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 5 clients
19 filings
$414K 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.
200 filings
26 clients · through 2019
Travis JohnsonCovered position: ​Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator David Vitter; Staff Director, Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy; Legislative Director, Rep John Shadegg; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Rep Tom Price; Staff Assistant, House Committee on Transportation.163 filings20 clients · through 2019
Catherine HarneyCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Chief of Staff, Rep. David Scott; Staff Assistant, Constituent Services Representative, Senator Kay Hagan.79 filings8 clients · through 2026
Catherine KuerbitzCovered position: Constituent Services Representative, Senator Kay Hagan.49 filings9 clients · through 2017
Bradford CheneyCovered position: ​Chief of Staff, Rep. Brad Sherman; Assistant to Chief of Staff, Sen. Hillary Clinton.32 filings9 clients · through 2019
Netonis WybensingerCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Protection; Chief of Staff, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer; Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom Feeney; Legislative Director, Rep. Pat Toomey.29 filings8 clients · through 2016
Chris Bates20 filings2 clients · through 2015
Joseph Cardwell6 filings2 clients · through 2013
Amy BouldinCovered position: N/A1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 11 of 13 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.
