Sarah HeltonCovered position: Intern, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner656 filings90 clients · through 2026
Denise Bode520 filings75 clients · through 2023
Alexander AngelsonCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, Office of Legislative Affairs, Executive Office of the President483 filings75 clients · through 2026
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: michael-best-strategies-llc.
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 $59.1M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 34 clients
172 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 22 clients
143 filings
$9.8M on those filings
Education
EDU · 13 clients
93 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 20 clients
85 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 11 clients
84 filings
$3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 16 clients
82 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 12 clients
80 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 14 clients
74 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 5 clients
63 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 5 clients
53 filings
$2.9M 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.
301 filings48 clients · through 2026
Brittan SpechtCovered position: Counsel, Dep Chief of Staff, Hse Speaker; Policy Dir, Dep Policy Dir, Hse Min Leader.; Sr Policy Adv., Hse Maj. Leader; Policy Dr, RSC; Dep Chief of Staff Rep McClintock, Leg Asst & Financial Analyst, Rep. McClintock298 filings63 clients · through 2026
Jason YaworskeCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor, Hse Speaker; Clerk, Sen Appropriations Cmt,; Assoc. Dir., Off. Management & Budget; Chief of Staff, Rep Davidson; Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Rep. King279 filings60 clients · through 2026
Preston HillCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor, House Speaker; Sr. Policy Advisor, Policy Advisor, House Minority Leader; Special Assistant, House Majority Leader278 filings59 clients · through 2026
Jeffry Alexander NicholsCovered position: Intern, House of Representatives; Intern, Senate200 filings36 clients · through 2022
Patrick Lannin Firth191 filings33 clients · through 2023
Brett EwerCovered position: Press Intern, Sen. Elizabeth Warren179 filings32 clients · through 2026
Tami Jackson Buckner177 filings24 clients · through 2026
Rachel SpiveyCovered position: None167 filings30 clients · through 2026
Michael DanklerCovered position: Chief of Staff, House of Representatives117 filings26 clients · through 2022
Kevin Swanson115 filings16 clients · through 2019
Erik Michael BerdyCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Legislative Affairs; Legislative Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army; Deputy Military Legislative Assistant, Sen. James Inhofe106 filings20 clients · through 2026
Thomas SchreibelCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner99 filings13 clients · through 2026
Anne C Canfield98 filings15 clients · through 2021
Bridget ViscontiCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the USTR and Chief of Staff, Office of the United States Representative, Executive Office of the President; Executive Office Coordinator- Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President82 filings19 clients · through 2023
Harrison Collins80 filings26 clients · through 2022
Ninio FetalvoCovered position: Dir of Strategic Communications, Deputy Dir of Communications, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services; Communications Advisor, Associate Advisor, Assistant Press Secretary, Executive Office of the President68 filings21 clients · through 2026
Brandon PalumboCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ron Johnson; Correspondence Manager, Sen. John Kennedy; Legislative Intern, Rep. Steve Scalise; Legislative Intern, Rep. Brad Wenstrup65 filings17 clients · through 2024
Andrea RiccioCovered position: Deputy Director Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, House of Representatives61 filings10 clients · through 2023
Jenette MorellCovered position: Law Clerk, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Tim Ryan39 filings11 clients · through 2024
Emily Jean Green39 filings12 clients · through 2023
Margaret FranklinCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Al Lawson; Senior Legislative Assistant, Acting Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Alma Adams; Legislative Aide, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand; Associate, Senate Finance Committee; Intern, Rep. Lincoln Davis.37 filings9 clients · through 2025
Ryan LosakCovered position: Intern, House Edu/Workforce Cmte; Leg Correspondent, Rep. John Kline; Leg Correspondent, Leg Aide, Leg Assistant, Sen. John Boozman33 filings13 clients · through 2026
Olivia Paige ImhoffCovered position: Deputy Associate Director, Executive Office of the President30 filings10 clients · through 2021
Molly Martell25 filings8 clients · through 2023
Elizabeth LarrabeeCovered position: Intern, Rep. Paul Tonko24 filings9 clients · through 2024
Covered positions · 30 of 47 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.
Switzerland
1 filing
through 2026
Glencore PLC
Switzerland
1 filing
through 2026
Brookfield Corporation
Canada
1 filing
through 2025
Cameco Corporation
Canada
1 filing
through 2025
Dateline Resources Limited
Australia
1 filing
through 2025
Theon International
Cyprus
1 filing
through 2025
Detusche Telekom Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2024
Imperial Brands Holdings International B.V.
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2024
Imperial Brands PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2024
Imperial Tobacco Holdings (1) Limited
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2024
Imperial Tobacco Holdings (2007) Limited
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2024
Imperial Tobacco Holdings (Netherlands) B.V.
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2024
Imperial Tobacco Holdings Limited
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2024
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.
