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-airlines.
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.
HOM
69 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
31 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
29 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
18 filings
$1M on those filings
Retirement
RET
14 filings
$800K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$400K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
5 filings
$40K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$270K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$150K 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.
12 filings
through 2012
S. 1300110th CongressAviation Investment and Modernization Act of 200712 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4441114th CongressAviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of 20169 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2345110th CongressAmerican Infrastructure Investment and Improvement Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2594112th CongressEuropean Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
S. 223112th CongressFAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act7 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6299110th CongressTo prohibit the Secretary of Transportation or the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from conducting auctions, implementing congestion pricing, limiting airport operations, or charging certain use fees at airports.7 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3150110th CongressAccess to Air Travel Act7 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2610113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20146 filingsthrough 2013
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.
Thomas J KeatingThe Ob-C Group, LLC25 filingsthrough 2014
Chad WolfWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: US Senate; DOT/TSA; DHS/TSA15 filingsthrough 2013
Paul SassCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Deputy Staff Director, House Committee on Small Business; Congressman Sam Graves - Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant14 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan14 filingsthrough 2014
William Joseph GriffinHill & Knowlton Strategies, LLC13 filingsthrough 2013
Timothy Farrell HanneganWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: US General Accounting Office13 filingsthrough 2012
Henry BonillaThe Normandy Group, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress12 filingsthrough 2016
Dale W SnapeWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLC12 filingsthrough 2012
John W HowardWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: White House EOP; US House; US Senate12 filingsthrough 2012
Thomas BlankWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: TSA/DHS & DOT; US House; US AID12 filingsthrough 2012
Brent S FranzelCardinal Point Partners11 filingsthrough 2010
Krista StarkStark Strategic, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Assistant and Legislative Director to Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.9 filingsthrough 2017
Chris J MillerCapitol Strategies Partners LLCCovered position: Rep. Reichert (R-WA), Rep. Miller (R-CA), Sen. Smith (R-OR)9 filingsthrough 2016
ROBERT CRAMER jrWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: Former Member, US House of Representatives9 filingsthrough 2013
Michael ReynoldsBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Deputy Policy Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aviation International Affairs, Department of Transportation8 filingsthrough 2024
