Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
53 filings
$46.6M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
53 filings
$46.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Scott Christian ThompsonCovered position: N/A62 filings1 client · through 2026
Jennifer CettaCovered position: N/A62 filings1 client · through 2026
Kevin O'HanlonCovered position: Senior Advisor (2008-2012) to Congressman Heath Shuler; Deputy Chief of Staff (2012-2013) to Congresswoman Betty Sutton28 filings1 client · through 2026
Gene M. IrisariCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director (2005-2010)-Rep. Michael McCaul; Rep Kevin Brady- Legislative Counsel (2003-2005), Legislative Assistant (2002-2003), Legislative Aide (2001-2002), Legislative Correspondent (2000-2001)
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd
South Korea
2 filings
through 2016
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 53 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: samsung-electronics-america-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 $0 in fees and $46.6M in expenses.
TEC · 1 client
53 filings
$46.6M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
53 filings
$46.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
52 filings
$46.4M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI · 1 client
51 filings
$46M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
48 filings
$44.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
47 filings
$41.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
45 filings
$35.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
37 filings
$40.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
27 filings
$27.3M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
24 filings
$13.3M 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.
23 filings1 client · through 2026
Erik PedersonCovered position: Sen. Tom Daschles office: Staff Assistant (1999-2001); Cloakroom Staff (2001-2004); State Department Legislative Affairs Bureau: Legislative Management Officer (2009-2010), Director of Senate Affairs (2010-2011)18 filings1 client · through 2026
Holly Thurmond Pataki17 filings1 client · through 2026
Joel WigintonCovered position: Spec. Asst. to the President, Legislative Affairs, '99-'01 ; ; Chief Counsel, Sen. Judiciary, Constitution Subcmte, '98-'99 ; ; Counsel, Sen. Judiciary, Courts Subcmte, '97-'9815 filings1 client · through 2016
Prerna Tomar14 filings1 client · through 2026
Kathryn VeronaCovered position: Science Fellow - Senate Commerce Committee, Space and Science Subcommittee (2019-2020)13 filings1 client · through 2026
Maritza KelleyCovered position: N/A13 filings1 client · through 2015
Kelsey ConradiCovered position: Deputy Policy Advisor, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (2020-23); Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2017-19); Counsel, House Committee on Energy and Commerce (2013-17)10 filings1 client · through 2026
David Edward Martin10 filings1 client · through 2021
Derron ParksCovered position: (House only)10 filings1 client · through 2019
Steve Elliott Merlis8 filings1 client · through 2016
Rebecca Knowles Peters7 filings1 client · through 2025
Grace MagalettaCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Schumer (2019-2023).5 filings1 client · through 2026
Grace DianaCovered position: Exec. Dir.: Natl. Science and Technology Council (NSTC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) - 2021; Deputy Exec. Dir.: NSTC, OSTP - 2020-2021; Special Assistant and Policy Advisor: OSTP - 2018-2020; Intern - Sen. Cruz - 20145 filings1 client · through 2022
Covered positions · 12 of 17 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.
