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: federal-advocates-inc.
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 $22.3M in fees and $0 in expenses.
CAW · 9 clients
138 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 4 clients
36 filings
$1M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT · 2 clients
36 filings
$524K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 6 clients
35 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 4 clients
34 filings
$550K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 3 clients
30 filings
Railroads
RRR · 2 clients
27 filings
$433K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 4 clients
26 filings
$400K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 3 clients
19 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Animals
ANI · 5 clients
19 filings
$185K 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.
D MICHAEL STROUD jrCovered position: Deputy Counsel House Committee on Homeland Security; Dep. Asst. Sec. DHS Leg Affairs; Asst. Sec. DHS Private Sector (Acting)
105 filings20 clients · through 2019
Patrick AndersonCovered position: Leg Aide Office of Rep. Henry Bonilla89 filings17 clients · through 2019
John LopezCovered position: Senior Director57 filings23 clients · through 2018
Christopher CarneyCovered position: Member of Congress54 filings14 clients · through 2019
Chris Massey51 filings10 clients · through 2012
Michael Grimes40 filings8 clients · through 2019
Kevin Patrick TalleyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Gaetz33 filings7 clients · through 2019
Peter Mihalick27 filings14 clients · through 2017
Jennifer ArangioCovered position: Senior Director, National Security Council22 filings6 clients · through 2019
Victoria Honard22 filings7 clients · through 2018
Jim Kiley21 filings7 clients · through 2018
Bryan Esposito7 filings1 client · through 2016
Rhoda Washington1 filing1 client · through 2017
A Bradley Mims1 filing1 client · through 2010
Covered positions · 10 of 18 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.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities B.V
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2015
Carbio
Argentina
1 filing
through 2013
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.
