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: husch-blackwell-llp.
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 $7.6M in fees and $0 in expenses.
TAX · 9 clients
58 filings
$715K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 3 clients
41 filings
$920K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 6 clients
38 filings
$160K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 3 clients
36 filings
$220K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 8 clients
35 filings
$85K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 7 clients
33 filings
$480K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 3 clients
29 filings
$650K on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM · 1 client
28 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD · 3 clients
25 filings
$20K on those filings
Education
EDU · 6 clients
18 filings
$160K 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.
Russell Orban
Covered position: General Counsel, House Committee on Small Business; Assistant Chief Counsel for Advocacy - SBA; Chief of Staff, Rep. Blanche Lincoln
44 filings5 clients · through 2020
Richard Martin39 filings7 clients · through 2013
Robert Horn30 filings3 clients · through 2019
Steven Kupka15 filings4 clients · through 2012
Roy Brian Hendrix12 filings1 client · through 2020
Charles Fleischmann11 filings3 clients · through 2016
Charles NottinghamCovered position: Chairman and Commissioner, Surface Transportation Board ; ; Counsel, House Government Reform and Oversight ; ; Chief of Staff- Rep. Bob Goodlatte ; ; Chief of Staff and Counsel-Rep. Bob Goodlatte9 filings2 clients · through 2014
Singleton B McallisterCovered position: General Counsel, US Agency for International Development8 filings3 clients · through 2018
Avi Meyerstein5 filings1 client · through 2020
John Grant5 filings1 client · through 2014
John W WestmorelandCovered position: Chief Tax Counsel, House Small Business Cmte.4 filings1 client · through 2010
Harvey M Tettlebaum3 filings1 client · through 2008
Tom Richard Wilmoth2 filings1 client · through 2008
Erik Dullea1 filing1 client · through 2019
Henry Chajet1 filing1 client · through 2016
Hal Daub1 filing1 client · through 2011
Covered positions · 7 of 20 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.
Angang Group International Trade Corporation
China
1 filing
through 2014
Benxi Beiying Iron & Steel Group Imp. & Exp. Corp. Ltd.
China
1 filing
through 2014
Jiangsu Shagang International Trade Co., Ltd.
China
1 filing
through 2014
Manding Control
Mali
1 filing
through 2014
Qingdao Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
China
1 filing
through 2014
Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co., Ltd.
China
1 filing
through 2014
Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd.
China
1 filing
through 2014
Xuanhua Iron & Steel Corp., Ltd.
China
1 filing
through 2014
Lend Lease Corporation Limited
Australia
1 filing
through 2012
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.
