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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
67 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
26 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2057112th CongressMobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3181112th CongressA bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to require a plan to ensure the military leadership of the Armed Forces reflects the diversity of the population of the United States, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2012
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-automobile-association.
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.
COM
21 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
16 filings
$610K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
6 filings
$683K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$663K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
2 filings
$260K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
2 filings
$53K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
2 filings
$46K 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.
110th Congress
Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act of 2007
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3684113th CongressListen to Americans First Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2006113th CongressNational Rare Earth Cooperative Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2006112th CongressCommuter Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2057111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 152118th CongressSupporting the goals and ideals of "move over" laws.3 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 2057113th CongressTo remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System the areas comprising Bay County Unit P-31P in Florida.3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3181113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3181111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2992119th CongressTo amend title 23, United States Code, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act with respect to vehicle roadside crashes, work zone safety, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 6610119th CongressPharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act]1 filingthrough 2025
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.
