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.
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-bankers-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.
FIN
191 filings
$149.7M on those filings
Insurance
INS
142 filings
$153M on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
128 filings
$124.7M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
104 filings
$118.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
100 filings
$109.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
97 filings
$133.1M on those filings
Housing
HOU
89 filings
$120.9M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
85 filings
$157.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
74 filings
$142.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
63 filings
$145.4M 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.
118th Congress
Credit Card Competition Act of 2023
25 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1996117th CongressSecure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 202123 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.22 filingsthrough 2010
S. 961114th CongressData Security Act of 201520 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2891118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 202318 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1484114th CongressFinancial Regulatory Improvement Act of 201518 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1323118th CongressSAFE Banking Act of 202317 filingsthrough 2024
S. 128117th CongressPrimary Care Enhancement Act of 202117 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2860118th CongressSAFER Banking Act16 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 908116th CongressStop Penalizing Working Seniors Act16 filingsthrough 2020
S. 12116th CongressHealth Savings Act of 201916 filingsthrough 2020
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.
67 filings
through 2022
Robert William StrandAmerican Bankers Association65 filingsthrough 2024
JAMES BALLENTINE jrAmerican Bankers Association65 filingsthrough 2022
Timothy Edward KeehanAmerican Bankers Association64 filingsthrough 2026
Edwin ElfmannAmerican Bankers AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. Steve King 8/10-6/1263 filingsthrough 2026
John Kevin Andrew MckechnieAmerican Bankers Association63 filingsthrough 2026
John Dale McmickleNorth South Government Strategies F/K/A Jdm Public Strategies, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee58 filingsthrough 2025
Roy RamthunRoy RamthunCovered position: White House Assistant to the President for Economic PolicySenior Advisor to Treasury Secretary for Health InitiativesProfessional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Finance Committee56 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Dee BuchananOgrCovered position: COS,RepConf;COS/DCOS/LD,Hensarling;DepCommDir,Gramm56 filingsthrough 2026
James ChessenAmerican Bankers Association55 filingsthrough 2020
Robert DavisAmerican Bankers AssociationCovered position: Commissioner, CFTC55 filingsthrough 2020
Wayne AbernathyAmerican Bankers Association55 filingsthrough 2019
Kyle NevinsHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-0638 filingsthrough 2026
Steve StombresHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Majority Leader 10-14; Chief of Staff, Office of the Minority Whip 08-09; Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief DeputyMajorityWhip04-07; Chief of Staff, Congressman Eric Cantor 01-0338 filingsthrough 2026
Manny RossmanHarbinger Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of the Senate Republican Whip 07-09; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Sen. Trent Lott 05-06; Legislative Director, Rep. Phil Crane 03-04; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Phil Crane 01-0238 filingsthrough 2026
Michael GulletteAmerican Bankers Association37 filingsthrough 2026
