103 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jun 30, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$300K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: american-advertising-federation.
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.
CPI
63 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
34 filings
$540K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
11 filings
$276K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$200K on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
9 filings
$236K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
9 filings
$236K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
9 filings
$236K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
9 filings
$236K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$60K 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.
118th Congress
Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2023
8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 483118th CongressInternet PACT Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 564118th CongressParental Data Rights Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 631118th CongressUPHOLD Privacy Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1770114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 340113th CongressProtecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 528113th CongressProtecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2701118th CongressOnline Privacy Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1073118th CongressAMERICA Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 555114th CongressFederal Exchange Data Breach Notification Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1027114th CongressData Breach Notification and Punishing Cyber Criminals Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 177114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 418113th CongressDo-Not-Track Online Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Alliance for American Advertising
7 filingsthrough 2009
Jeffry PerlmanAmerican Advertising FederationCovered position: EVP Government Affairs & General Counsel6 filingsthrough 2009
Robert KohlmeyerAmerican Advertising FederationCovered position: Manager Government Affairs6 filingsthrough 2009
Wallace SnyderAmerican Advertising FederationCovered position: President & CEO5 filingsthrough 2008
James H DavidsonDavidson & Company2 filingsthrough 2008
Jordan HaasAlliance for American Advertising1 filingthrough 2009
Jordan HaasPolsinelli PC1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
