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-inc.
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
166 filings
$77.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
144 filings
$67.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
103 filings
$12.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
82 filings
$21.3M on those filings
Retirement
RET
41 filings
$16.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
41 filings
$14.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
37 filings
$15.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
16 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
16 filings
$3.6M 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.
115th Congress
21st Century AIRR Act
24 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3935118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 202421 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1939118th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 202419 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 201217 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1838118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 202316 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 201716 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 659118th CongressFAIR Fees Act of 202315 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4094117th CongressOne-Stop Pilot Program Act of 202115 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 201714 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1309115th CongressTSA Administrator Modernization Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
S. 209118th CongressFAIR Fees Act of 202312 filingsthrough 2024
S. 753118th CongressGood Jobs for Good Airports Act12 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Jerr RosenbaumPenn Avenue PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. John Cornyn; Chief of Staff, Rep. Robert Hurt; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jack Kingston; Chief of Staff, Rep. Virgil Goode41 filingsthrough 2026
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Asst. Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (Asst. Counsel, Hse. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee)41 filingsthrough 2019
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee39 filingsthrough 2019
Stephen S NeumanAmerican Airlines, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assist. to Sen. John Rockefeller; and Leg. Assist. to Sen. Jean Carnahan36 filingsthrough 2026
Christina Mcgarry DavidPenn Avenue PartnersCovered position: Legislative Assistant / Scheduler, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart; Intern, Rep. Doc Hastings35 filingsthrough 2026
Nathan J. GattenAmerican Airlines, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Correspondent and Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Bennett, Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs31 filingsthrough 2025
Michael WascomAmerican Airlines, Inc.Covered position: Counselor to the Under Secretary, DOT30 filingsthrough 2016
Molly A WilkinsonAmerican Airlines, Inc.Covered position: (con) US Dept of Defense (Iraqi Supreme Commission for Iraqi National Conf; Special Projects Coordinator); US Dept of Defense, Ministry of Interior (Chief of Staff & Chief of Admin. Services)29 filingsthrough 2025
John W TimmonsThe Cormac Group, LLC29 filingsthrough 2020
Samuel WhitehornElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee; Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee; Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee.28 filingsthrough 2026
Robert William ChamberlinElevate Government Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee; Assistant Counsel, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.28 filingsthrough 2026
Megan MaloneVenable LLP28 filingsthrough 2017
WILLIAM K RIS jrAmerican Airlines, Inc.28 filingsthrough 2015
Steve ClarkCgcn Group, LLC27 filingsthrough 2026
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003;
Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-200627 filingsthrough 2026
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Robert F. Bennett 1999-2001;
Staff Director Subcommittee Financial Institutions 2002-06;
Senior Policy Advisor Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2007-10;
Professional Staff Member, Senate Banking Committee 2007-1027 filingsthrough 2026
John StipicevicCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Intern/Staff Assistant, Majority Whip Roy Blunt, 2003-2006;
Floor Assistant, Republican Whip Roy Blunt, 2007-2008;
Floor Assistant, Republican Whip Eric Cantor, 2009-2010;; Director of Floor Operations, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, 2011-2014;
Deputy Chief of Staff for Floor and Member Services, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 2014-201527 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 77 of 128 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
