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-raben-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 $50.3M in fees and $0 in expenses.
LAW · 30 clients
339 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 34 clients
244 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 36 clients
234 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 12 clients
146 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 10 clients
146 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 22 clients
144 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 12 clients
143 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM · 19 clients
138 filings
$2M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 11 clients
135 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 15 clients
133 filings
$5.1M 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.
Eduardo SotoCovered position: Legislative Aide, Maxine Waters' office; intern, Office of Resident commissioner Pedro Pierluisi225 filings27 clients · through 2026
Courtney SnowdenCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Tammy Baldwin223 filings21 clients · through 2015
Michael YudinCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education Legislative Director, Senator Jeanne Shaheen185 filings11 clients · through 2026
Karen MarangiCovered position: Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on Senate Judiciary Legislative Aide to Senator Alan Cranston177 filings19 clients · through 2017
Rachel Kathryn MotleyCovered position: Intern, Office of Senator Sherrod Brown165 filings21 clients · through 2026
Diego SanchezCovered position: Legislative Intern, Office of Representative Mike Coffman (CO-06)163 filings16 clients · through 2026
Daniel PenchinaCovered position: Legislative Director for Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky Legislative Director for Congressman Christopher Murphy Legislative Assistant and Appropriations Associate for Congressman Jerrold Nadler156 filings19 clients · through 2017
Patricia FirstCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice.145 filings22 clients · through 2025
Joel PackerCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs in the U.S. Department of Labor145 filings13 clients · through 2016
Christina WeaverCovered position: Leg. Counsel, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee140 filings15 clients · through 2018
Carla PierreCovered position: intern, office of Congressman Juan Vargas133 filings11 clients · through 2025
Jonathan J KentCovered position: Press Assistant for Congressman Peter Welch132 filings13 clients · through 2017
Joseph OnekCovered position: Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, Justice Department; Senior Coordinator for Rule of Law, State Department; Senior Counsel to Speaker Pelosi126 filings15 clients · through 2024
Damara Lauren Catlett119 filings11 clients · through 2024
Haley Griffin100 filings14 clients · through 2015
Francella Chinchilla94 filings8 clients · through 2019
Justin Douglas Wilson92 filings12 clients · through 2021
Minh NguyenCovered position: intern, office of Congressman Adam Smith.88 filings12 clients · through 2026
Elliot WilliamsCovered position: Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Assistant Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice86 filings12 clients · through 2023
Sarah BoltonCovered position: Education Policy Director, Senate HELP Committee,Dem. Staff;Sr. Policy and Budget Advisor,Senate Budget Committee, Dem. Staff; Legislative Assistant and Legislative Aide, Sen. Patty Murray; Staff Assistant, Senate Budget Committee, Clerk's Office80 filings10 clients · through 2025
Maria PriceCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand79 filings9 clients · through 2023
Sunil MansukhaniCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of Education for Civil Rights Senior Attorney United States Department of Justices Civil Rights Division, Ed71 filings6 clients · through 2026
Mark GlazeCovered position: Legisl. Assist. Rep. David Skaggs71 filings9 clients · through 2013
James Colligan65 filings11 clients · through 2019
Jeremy ParisCovered position: Special Counsel, Senate Judiciary Cmt, Minority; Special Counsel for Sen Hirono; Chief Counsel for Nominations & Oversight, Senate Judiciary Cmt; Snr Counsel for Oversight & Investigations, Senate Judiciary Cmt; Consel, Senate Judiciary Cmt57 filings7 clients · through 2025
EDGAR BURCH ii55 filings7 clients · through 2026
Covered positions · 49 of 106 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.
Japan
1 filing
through 2015
Islamic Relief Worldwide
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2014
Secretaria De Relaciones Exteriores De Estados Unidos Me
Mexico
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.
