Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 53 clients
622 filings
$32.8M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 42 clients
574 filings
$22M 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.
Yassamin AnsariD-Arizona-AL
Bills: H.R. 1300, H.R. 2531, H.R. 2550 +2 more
27 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.
ROBERT L SMITH iiCovered position: U.S. Representative Hefley, Legislative Aide; U.S. Representative Watkins, Legislative Director905 filings97 clients · through 2018
William R NordwindCovered position: House Telecommunications Subcommittee, Counsel; Representative Upton, Legislative Director, Counsel, Deputy Chief of Staff; Representative Pryce, Legislative Director and Counsel; Representative Upton, Legislative Director and Counsel877 filings90 clients · through 2026
Bart StupakCovered position: U.S. Representative, 1993-2011735 filings79 clients · through 2026
Foreign interests disclosed
The 15 most frequently disclosed of 54 foreign entities named on this registrant's filings.
Fiat North America LLC
United States of America
10 filings
through 2014
Fiat S.P.A.
Italy
10 filings
through 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 6,319 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Better Identity Coalition-A Project of the Center for Cybersecurity Policy & Law
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: venable-llp.
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.
Association of Food and Dairy Retailers, Wholesalers and Manufacturers
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 $179M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 57 clients
565 filings
$19.6M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 31 clients
470 filings
$17.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 59 clients
422 filings
$11.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 27 clients
306 filings
$11.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 25 clients
281 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 25 clients
236 filings
$9M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI · 11 clients
228 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT · 19 clients
192 filings
$8.9M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 21 clients
187 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 15 clients
187 filings
$4.4M 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.
Gregory M GillCovered position: Legislative Director, Representative Hoyer, Asst. Staff, House Appropriations Committee704 filings66 clients · through 2026
Richard Y HeggCovered position: N/A682 filings58 clients · through 2025
Thomas H QuinnCovered position: N/A654 filings66 clients · through 2026
Samuel OlchykCovered position: Legislation Counsel, Joint Committee on Taxation; Tax Counsel, Senate Finance Committee646 filings50 clients · through 2026
Nicholas D ChoateCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak536 filings55 clients · through 2026
Josh FinestoneCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation515 filings51 clients · through 2026
Stuart P Ingis442 filings19 clients · through 2026
Sarah Donovan438 filings46 clients · through 2026
Joshua H RaymondCovered position: Budget and Policy Analyst, Office of Management and Budget; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Darlene Hooley; Chief of Staff, Rep. Christopher S. Murphy420 filings27 clients · through 2026
Michael A Signorelli411 filings16 clients · through 2026
Ashley W Craig402 filings22 clients · through 2026
John V. DrzewickiCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Steve Austria; Policy Advisor, US House of Representatives; Policy Director, House Republican Conference368 filings49 clients · through 2026
Emilio W CividanesCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology325 filings12 clients · through 2024
William J Donovan320 filings35 clients · through 2016
Tara Sugiyama Potashnik282 filings11 clients · through 2026
Ilisa Halpern Paul275 filings27 clients · through 2026
Elizabeth K Lowe265 filings11 clients · through 2026
Daris MeeksCovered position: Counsel, Policy Director, & Policy Analyst, House Republican Conference; Legislative Counsel, Representative Hensarling; Counsel to Chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board; Counsel, Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee; Director of Domestic Policy, Office of the Vice President; Deputy Assistant to the President264 filings29 clients · through 2020
Yardly Pollas-KimbleCovered position: Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. Bobby Rush263 filings31 clients · through 2026
David MullonCovered position: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Staff Director and Chief Counsel, General Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel251 filings23 clients · through 2025
Jodie Curtis242 filings23 clients · through 2026
Megan Malone238 filings25 clients · through 2017
JAMES H BURNLEY ivCovered position: Secretary of Transportation, 1987-1989237 filings17 clients · through 2025
Ariel WolfCovered position: Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate, Office of Senator Sam Brownback; Counselor to the Deputy Secretary, Dept. of Transportation221 filings19 clients · through 2026
Andrew OlmemCovered position: U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel, Counsel; Senator George Voinovich, Counsel209 filings19 clients · through 2017
Loren AhoCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Laura Richardson198 filings21 clients · through 2026
Christopher M Scribner175 filings17 clients · through 2026
Covered positions · 67 of 169 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.
Fiat Group Automobiles S.P.A.
Italy
9 filings
through 2014
Glencore Ag
Switzerland
5 filings
through 2021
Polymet Mining Corp.
Canada
4 filings
through 2021
National Real Estate Company
Kuwait
2 filings
through 2023
Fiat North America
United States of America
2 filings
through 2014
Marubeni Corporation
Japan
1 filing
through 2026
Medisca Pharmaceutique Inc.
Canada
1 filing
through 2025
Pearson, PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2025
Badger Infrastructure Solutions Ltd.
Canada
1 filing
through 2024
Relx Group PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2024
Yubico Ab
Sweden
1 filing
through 2024
Cibc
Canada
1 filing
through 2023
Futrue Gmbh
Germany
1 filing
through 2023
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.
