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-automotive-leasing-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.
TRA
35 filings
$940K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$10K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
4 filings
$10K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
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
Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5984110th CongressClean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6186110th CongressInvesting in Climate Action and Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6094112th CongressRaechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1455112th CongressSurface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 8870119th CongressBUILD America 250 Act1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 2776110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
28 filings
through 2025
Don SnyderFederal Policy Group, LLC26 filingsthrough 2021
Matt DolanFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senator David Durenberger23 filingsthrough 2015
Aharon FriedmanFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means17 filingsthrough 2025
John GodfreyFederal Policy Group, LLC7 filingsthrough 2010
Holly WalkerSederholm Public Affairs, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2010
Paul SmithPaul Smith (DBA as Policy Cons Services5 filingsthrough 2009
James ObrienInvariant LLCCovered position: Pro. Staff Member, Ways and Means Committee (22-23); Rep Kevin Brady: Leg. Dir. (21-22); Sr. Leg. Asst (19-21); Sen Mitch McConnell: Leg. Correspondent (18-19); Staff Asst (17-18); Intern (16)4 filingsthrough 2025
Theodore TanzerInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel, House Energy & Commerce (23-24); Counsel, Commissioner Feldman, US CPSC (19-22); Pro. Staff Member, Sen. Commerce Committee (19); Law Clerk, Sen. Commerce Committee (18-19); Fellow, Sen. Thune (18); Intern, Sen. Repub. Conference (18)4 filingsthrough 2025
Carolyn G CodaInvariant LLCCovered position: Special Assistant, Office of Legislative Affairs, US Department of the Treasury (2006-2008)3 filingsthrough 2026
Ryan DilworthInvariant LLCCovered position: Rep. Beth Van Duyne: Chief of Staff (2024-2026), Leg Director (2021-2024); Rep. Bob Gibbs: Senior Policy Advisor (2020-2021), Sr Leg Aide (2018-2019), Leg Aide (2017), Constituent Services Representative (2015-2017)2 filingsthrough 2026
Kipp A CoddingtonAlston & Bird LLP2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 9 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
