Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Association of Settlement Consultants
District of Columbia
21 filings from 1 registrant · 2021–2026 · latest filed Jul 17, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
21 filings
$1M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2347 119th CongressSurvivor Justice Tax Prevention Act6 filingsthrough 2026
- H.R. 1 119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- John D Raffaelli Capitol Counsel LLC22 filingsthrough 2026
- Drew Goesl Capitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ross; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Secretary, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln.20 filingsthrough 2026
- David Olander Capitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.14 filingsthrough 2026
- David Bridges Capitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. John Barrasso; Tax Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-association-of-settlement-consultants.