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 lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
James CreevyAbb, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Ben Chandler (2008-2010);Legislative Assistant, Rep. Ben Chandler (2006-2007);Legislative Assistant, Rep. Collin Peterson (2005), Legislative Assistant, Rep. Ken Lucas (2004)48 filingsthrough 2026
Catharine Cyr RansomFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Bob Graham; Professional Staff and Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; Sr. Climate and Environmental Advisor, Senator Max Baucus26 filingsthrough 2024
Asaf NaglerAbb, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Director, Government Relations21 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 100 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: abb-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
47 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
32 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
31 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
24 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
22 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
12 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
10 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
7 filings
$560K 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 spend 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.
112th Congress
Smart Energy Act
2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 3151119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
S. 1541119th CongressSHIPS for America Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
S. 1000112th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Mary TrippAbb, Inc.Covered position: vice President - Government Affairs
20 filingsthrough 2016
Bruce B TalleyAbb, Inc.Covered position: Vice President, Government Affairs16 filingsthrough 2014
Nick SutterFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate Energy Committee ;Professional Staff Member, Senate Small Business Committee; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Maria Cantwell;Intern, Senate Rules Committee13 filingsthrough 2021
Ben SpringerFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)11 filingsthrough 2024
Rob SeidmanFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Kelly Ayotte; Policy Director, Rep. Marsha Blackburn; Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bob Riley; Intern, Sen. Bill Frist11 filingsthrough 2022
Brian Thomas KnappAbb, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Aide, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2006-2008)9 filingsthrough 2026
Tod PrestonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Professional Staff, House Subcommittee on Environment & Natural Resources9 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)7 filingsthrough 2026
Samantha McleanForbes-TateCovered position: Senior LA, Senator Cruz (2018-2023); LA, Senator Cruz (2016-2018); Leg Aid, Senator Cruz (2013-2016); Assistant to the CoS and LD, Senator Cruz (2013-2013); SA, Senator DeMint (2012-2012)7 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew VlasatyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Congressional Liaison, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Professional Staff, Senior Professional Staff, Senate Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Committee; Policy Advisor, Senator Roy Blunt7 filingsthrough 2023
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005)6 filingsthrough 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate6 filingsthrough 2026
Anthony ReedFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Deputy Associate Administrator for Congressional Relations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Chief of Staff, Rep. J. Dennis Hastert; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. J. Dennis Hastert; Legislative Director, Rep. J. Dennis Hastert.6 filingsthrough 2024
Kirk AndersonAbb, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2026
Christine RamsdellAbb, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2026
Kapil SharmaAbb, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Director, Government Relations5 filingsthrough 2023
Justin KintzForbes-TateCovered position: Special Assistant, External and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior (2007-2009)4 filingsthrough 2025
Trevor HangerForbes-Tate3 filingsthrough 2026
John A. HaysbertAbb, Inc.Covered position: Vice President, Government & Institutional Relations3 filingsthrough 2020
Brent RobinsonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Robert J. Wittman; Legislative Assistant, Deputy Press Secretary, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Rep. Jo Ann Davis2 filingsthrough 2024
George Robb RogersRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Assistant to the Speaker for Policy, US House; Counsel and Policy Advisor, US House; General Counsel, Rules Committee, US House; Counsel, Government Reform Committee, US House; Legislative Assistant, US Senate1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 20 of 25 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
