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.
Suzanne M RohdeAmerican Bus AssociationCovered position: Counsel, U.S. House of Reps, T&I Committee; Assistant Administrator, RSPA/USDOT; Policy Assistant, USDOT; Chief Counsel, FMCSA/USDOT; Special Assistant, NTSB41 filingsthrough 2024
Jonathan TalismanCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Joint Comm. on Taxation Leg. Counsel35 filingsthrough 2022
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: JCT: Associate Deputy Chief of Staff
The filings
The 20 most recent of 158 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-bus-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.
HOM
57 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
53 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
49 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
40 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
24 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
21 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
19 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 filings
$530K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$190K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
8 filings
$646K 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.
116th Congress
Motor Carriers Accountability Act
9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.9 filingsthrough 2018
S. 763115th CongressSurface and Maritime Transportation Security Act9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3013118th CongressLICENSE Act of 20238 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.
35 filings
through 2022
Melissa MuellerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Rep. Doggett; Leg Counsel Sen. Reid35 filingsthrough 2022
Patrick G. HeckCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: House Committee on Ways and Means:Assistant Counsel35 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew J. NewhartAmerican Bus AssociationCovered position: Intern/Legislative Assistant, House Committee on Homeland Security; Scheduler/office Mgr, Representative Weiner26 filingsthrough 2022
CLYDE JAMES HART jrAmerican Bus AssociationCovered position: D.O.T. Federal Maritime Administrator; Deputy Administrator, FMCSA24 filingsthrough 2015
Dennis PotterK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm17 filingsthrough 2021
Sean McglynnK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/Asst to Chief of Staff, Senator Mikulski17 filingsthrough 2021
Michael RossettiLippes Mathias LLP (Fka Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP)Covered position: Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior15 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel HoffAmerican Bus Association15 filingsthrough 2015
William Robert DavisCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director and Tax Policy Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed14 filingsthrough 2022
Brian ShinaultAmerican Strategic Partners11 filingsthrough 2022
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith11 filingsthrough 2020
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman10 filingsthrough 2020
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP9 filingsthrough 2020
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman9 filingsthrough 2020
Steven O PalmerVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation8 filingsthrough 2016
Charles Spencer CooperBrumidi GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff for Rep. Adam Putnam(1/08-11/10);PolicyDir,House Republican Conference(1/07-3/08);StaffDir,Republican Policy Committee(4/06-1/07); LegDir,Rep.Mario Diaz-Balart(1/03-4/06);Leg Assistant,Rep.FelixGrucci (10/1-1/03)7 filingsthrough 2026
Caroline Anne HoytAmerican Bus Association6 filingsthrough 2026
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sen. Byron Dorgan - Asst. Chief of Staff, Leg, Assistant, Dep. Chief of Staff; Dept. of Energy - Deputy Director of Scheduling & Advance6 filingsthrough 2020
Slade GortonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator6 filingsthrough 2019
Dawn LevyCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel to Senator Baucus6 filingsthrough 2011
David HainesVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Legislative Aide, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison; and Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Congressman Kenny Marchant5 filingsthrough 2016
