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: principal-financial-group.
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 $40.3M in expenses.
RET · 1 client
61 filings
$34.7M on those filings
Insurance
INS · 1 client
58 filings
$33M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
40 filings
$22.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
34 filings
$19.5M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 1 client
16 filings
$9M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
14 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
14 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
13 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
12 filings
$6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
10 filings
$5.7M 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.
29 filings1 client · through 2014
Laricke BlanchardCovered position: Schedule C political appointee, Deputy Director for Policy, Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation: 2011-2013.25 filings1 client · through 2020
Jason A. Lipka20 filings1 client · through 2017
R Lucia Riddle18 filings1 client · through 2012
James N Cavanaugh13 filings1 client · through 2013
Anne Davey Gleason12 filings1 client · through 2026
Lauren CancienneCovered position: Staff Assistant for Congressman Ric Keller Executive Assistant for Congressman Connie Mack9 filings1 client · through 2023
Staci Kathleen Krier8 filings1 client · through 2010
Sue Palmer6 filings1 client · through 2008
Christopher D Paybe2 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 3 of 15 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.
