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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
17 filings
$516K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$340K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4146119th CongressPAPA Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2175119th CongressPilot and Aircraft Privacy Act6 filingsthrough 2026
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: aircraft-owners-and-pilots-association.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.
6 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2530119th CongressCREATE Act1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 8113th CongressReserved for the Speaker.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
Jonathan Talisman
Capitol Tax Partners, LLP
Covered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy
John SheaAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant/ Press Assistant, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Steven Fincher6 filingsthrough 2026
Jack RuddyAxadvocacy Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Sam Graves; Legislative Director, Congressman Sam Graves; Deputy Staff Director, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Staff Director, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure6 filingsthrough 2026
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher3 filingsthrough 2008
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)3 filingsthrough 2008
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)3 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen3 filingsthrough 2008
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats3 filingsthrough 2008
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 17 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
