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: the-goldman-sachs-group-inc.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. — Receipts Report
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 $58.5M in expenses.
ECN · 1 client
63 filings
$54.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
59 filings
$50.8M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 1 client
55 filings
$45.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
26 filings
$23.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
7 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
4 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Housing
HOU · 1 client
3 filings
$3M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT · 1 client
3 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
1 filing
$1.2M on those filings
Insurance
INS · 1 client
1 filing
$980K 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.
Ken ConnollyCovered position: S.A. Dir.Off. Env. Pol.; LD, S. Jeffords; SD, CEPW
51 filings1 client · through 2021
Michael PaeseCovered position: Dep. Maj. Staff Dir., HFSC; Sr. Min. Couns., HFSC48 filings1 client · through 2022
Stephen Pastrick36 filings1 client · through 2026
Ryan Jachym34 filings1 client · through 2026
Matt NiemeyerCovered position: Trade Rep.; Asst. US Trade Rep.28 filings1 client · through 2017
Robert O'Connor22 filings1 client · through 2018
Todd M MalanCovered position: Cong. Aff. Rep., Office of the U.S.T.R.12 filings1 client · through 2012
Faryar ShirzadCovered position: Dep. Nat'l Security Adv. for Int'l Econ. Affairs10 filings1 client · through 2010
Lee Brenner9 filings1 client · through 2026
Eric Howard EdwardsCovered position: Leg. Asst. S. Simon7 filings1 client · through 2012
Marti Thomas7 filings1 client · through 2009
Ann Costello7 filings1 client · through 2009
John David GromCovered position: Executive Director, New Democrat Coalition4 filings1 client · through 2026
Matthew Rhodes4 filings1 client · through 2024
Mark A Patterson2 filings1 client · through 2008
Caroline MooreCovered position: Economic Policy Advisor, US Senate1 filing1 client · through 2026
W Carter Doswell1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 12 of 21 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.
