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: the-bennett-consulting-group.
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 $5.5M in fees and $0 in expenses.
SMB · 1 client
52 filings
$846K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 7 clients
36 filings
$647K on those filings
Banking
BAN · 2 clients
12 filings
$490K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 3 clients
12 filings
$320K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 2 clients
11 filings
$185K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 1 client
11 filings
$45K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
6 filings
$106K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
4 filings
$33K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
2 filings
$75K 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.
15 filings3 clients · through 2013
Dave Larson11 filings2 clients · through 2026
Ethan Dursteler7 filings2 clients · through 2026
Ryan Leavitt5 filings2 clients · through 2026
Neal Patel4 filings1 client · through 2026
Daniel SimmonsCovered position: Assistant Secretary, DOE1 filing1 client · through 2026
Cody Stewart1 filing1 client · through 2025
Covered positions · 4 of 11 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.
Australia
1 filing
through 2018
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.
