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.
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: aluminum-association-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.
TRD
62 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
23 filings
$570K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
18 filings
$360K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
17 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
14 filings
$280K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$920K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
8 filings
$600K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
5 filings
$1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
5 filings
$100K 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
TREAT Act
7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4040118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2145119th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
S. 351119th CongressSTEWARD Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6159118th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3742117th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3743117th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8059117th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8183117th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8254117th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8256117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 filingsthrough 2022
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.
14 filings
through 2015
John Stephen LarkinThe Aluminum Association, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2011
Robert Paul StrieterThe Aluminum Association, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2011
