Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR · 7 clients
211 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 13 clients
89 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Michael TongourCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate GOP Whip591 filings41 clients · through 2026
John HolsclawCovered position: Senate floor staff, Republican Secretary's office327 filings21 clients · through 2026
Brian Keith Heard67 filings9 clients · through 2014
CARL GIST jrCovered position: Former LA to Cong. John Barrow (D-GA)53 filings10 clients · through 2010
Celia Wallace
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Osservatorio Asia
Italy
1 filing
through 2014
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson
Sweden
1 filing
through 2009
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 809 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: tch-group-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 $19.7M in fees and $0 in expenses.
ENV · 5 clients
80 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 6 clients
77 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 6 clients
76 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 5 clients
74 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 6 clients
73 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 10 clients
64 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB · 2 clients
61 filings
$750K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 7 clients
47 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 8 clients
41 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 3 clients
29 filings
$670K 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.
Covered position: Leg. Asst to Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo)
29 filings4 clients · through 2012
Manus CooneyCovered position: Former Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committe25 filings6 clients · through 2010
Douglas S Wiley24 filings2 clients · through 2019
Alex CooperCovered position: GOP Professional Staff House Oversight and, Government Reform Committee22 filings6 clients · through 2012
Dennis FitzgibbonsCovered position: DemocraticChief of Staff/HouseEnergyCommerce6 filings1 client · through 2014
Allison Nyholm1 filing1 client · through 2013
Covered positions · 7 of 10 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.
