Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 63 clients
1,145 filings
$68.7M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 54 clients
1,128 filings
$61.6M on those filings
Health Issues
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this firm's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Cliff BentzR-Oregon-AL
Bills: H.R. 1492, H.R. 2584, H.R. 2630 +3 more
102 filings
2 lobbyists
Michael C. BurgessR-Texas-AL
Bills: H.R. 1691, H.R. 2584, H.R. 2630 +7 more
90 filings
2 lobbyists
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Rachel Jones HenslerCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Tax Policy Dir.; Office of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Correspondent1,112 filings63 clients · through 2026
Mary Beth Savary TaylorCovered position: Joint Economic Committee, General Counsel; U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Legislative Assistant862 filings54 clients · through 2026
Stacey HughesCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Cmte, Dpty Staff Dir;Ofce of the Asst. Maj. Ldr (Sen. Nickles), Policy Adv; Office of the Asst. Min. Ldr (Sen. Nickles), Policy Adv.;Senate Spec. Cmte on Aging (Sen.Cohen),Prof. Staff Member; U.S.Sen Connie Mack, Leg Asst/Schdlr813 filings51 clients · through 2020
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Accenture PLC
Ireland
2 filings
through 2019
Ppl and Vpl
United Kingdom
2 filings
through 2008
Hanwha Aerospace Co., Ltd (Parent Company)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 2,436 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: the-nickles-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 $135.9M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 60 clients
1,059 filings
$58M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 70 clients
619 filings
$34.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 33 clients
266 filings
$16.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 18 clients
251 filings
$15.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 39 clients
239 filings
$14.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 25 clients
201 filings
$12.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 16 clients
180 filings
$11.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 19 clients
178 filings
$11.2M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 14 clients
153 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 8 clients
127 filings
$7.9M 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.
David SchweikertR-Arizona-AL
Bills: H.R. 1990, H.R. 2423, H.R. 3269 +8 more
59 filings
1 lobbyist
Mitt RomneyR-Utah
Bills: S. 2333
38 filings
1 lobbyist
Dianne FeinsteinD-California
Bills: S. 866
20 filings
1 lobbyist
Alan ArmstrongR-Oklahoma
Bills: S. 2355, S. 3788
6 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this firm's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Don Nickles
Covered position: U.S. Senator
768 filings65 clients · through 2026
Jeff ChoudhryCovered position: U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Director; U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Assistant / Staff Assistant; House Small Business Committee, Intern765 filings60 clients · through 2026
Donald KentCovered position: U.S. Sen Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Asst Sec; DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Deputy Asst Sec; U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Policy Adv; Office of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles Policy Adv; U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Leg Asst765 filings57 clients · through 2026
Emily PorterCovered position: Ofce of Spkr(Rep.Boehner),Asst to Spkr,Policy;Ofce of Min. Ldr(Rep.Boehner),Plcy Adv;Ofce of the Maj. Ldr(Rep. Boehner),Plcy Adv;Cmte Ed & the Wrkfrc(Rep.Boehner),Coalitions Dir. for Educ Plcy; Rep.Trent Franks,Sr.Leg.Asst; Rep.Tom Tancredo,Leg.Asst506 filings41 clients · through 2021
Greg D'AngeloCovered position: White House Office of Management and Budget, Associate Director of Health Programs; Senate Committee on the Budget (Sen. Gregg, Sen. Sessions, and Sen. Enzi), Professional Staff Member440 filings44 clients · through 2026
Hazen MarshallCovered position: Ofce of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles, Dpty CofSOfce of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles, EconomistU.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant395 filings38 clients · through 2014
Brett BakerCovered position: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Senators Crapo, Grassley, and Hatch)-Deputy Health Policy Director; Health Policy Dir.; Senior Policy Advsr; Policy Advisor. U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means (Reps. Camp and Ryan) Prof. Staff394 filings35 clients · through 2026
Stephanie Badger372 filings32 clients · through 2026
Lucas HollandCovered position: Office of U.S. Senator Inhofe - Chief of Staff; Legislative Director; Legislative Assistant; Legislative Correspondent; Correspondence Coordinator215 filings22 clients · through 2026
Cynthia Merifield TripodiCovered position: U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant212 filings17 clients · through 2015
Doug BadgerCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Economic PolicyUS Senate, Assistant Majority Leader, Chief of StaffUS Senate Rep. Policy Cmte, Staff Dir. / Asst. Staff Dir.210 filings27 clients · through 2012
Katherine RaabCovered position: House Cmte on Energy and Commerce, Prof. Staff; Congressman Mary Bono, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Elton Gallegly, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Leg. Asst.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Leg. Corr.; Congressman Michael Bilirakis, Staff Asst101 filings12 clients · through 2019
Molly FrommCovered position: (continued) U.S. House Cmte on Oversight and Government Reform, Deputy General Counsel, Parliamentarian, Professional Staff Member; U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, Leg. Asst., Leg. Corr., Staff Asst., Intern86 filings28 clients · through 2026
Brian WildCovered position: Exec. Office of the VP, Dpty. Asst. for Leg. Aff.81 filings15 clients · through 2010
JEFF MURRAY jrCovered position: U.S. Representative Tom Feeney, Leg. Counsel33 filings8 clients · through 2009
Nicole WrightCovered position: U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent, and Intern; U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, Staff Assistant; U.S House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Intern; U.S. Rep./Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Intern15 filings8 clients · through 2025
Catherine PyleCovered position: U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, Intern, District Office2 filings1 client · through 2025
Covered positions · 19 of 20 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.
South Korea
1 filing
through 2026
Hanwha Corporation (33% Ownership of Hanwha Aerospace Co., Ltd.)
South Korea
1 filing
through 2026
Hanwha Group (Ultimate Parent Company)
South Korea
1 filing
through 2026
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, PLC
Ireland
1 filing
through 2025
Novo A/S (Owns 26.5% of Nn A/S)
Denmark
1 filing
through 2025
Registrant Is a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Novo Nordisk US Which Is Wholly-Owned by Novo Nordisk A/S
Denmark
1 filing
through 2025
Hanwha Solutions Corp.
South Korea
1 filing
through 2023
Csl Limited
Australia
1 filing
through 2019
Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Indirect)
Saudi Arabia
1 filing
through 2019
Cnh Industrial Nv
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2013
Tds Investor (Cayman) LP
United States of America
1 filing
through 2008
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.
