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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: afl-cio.
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.
TRD
67 filings
$48.7M on those filings
Retirement
RET
66 filings
$48.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
64 filings
$46.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
59 filings
$43.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
58 filings
$41.3M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
54 filings
$39.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
47 filings
$34.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
46 filings
$34.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
44 filings
$30.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
39 filings
$27.5M 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.
114th Congress
American SAFE Act of 2015
15 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1659114th CongressVoting Rights Advancement Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2042114th CongressWAGE Act13 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2045114th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 711114th CongressEqual Treatment of Public Servants Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2075114th CongressAmerican Worker Health Care Tax Relief Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
S. 862114th CongressPaycheck Fairness Act12 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 879114th CongressAx the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act11 filingsthrough 2016
H.Res. 393114th CongressExpressing support for policies to protect and expand Social Security and secure its long-term future in a fair and responsible manner.11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 420117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 202110 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 511114th CongressTribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 644114th CongressTrade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Brett GibsonAFL-CIO75 filingsthrough 2023
Cecelie CountsAFL-CIO69 filingsthrough 2022
Byron W CharltonAFL-CIO59 filingsthrough 2020
Thomas W TrotterAFL-CIOCovered position: None54 filingsthrough 2020
