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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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-council-of-the-blind-inc.
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.
EDU
9 filings
$96K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$50K 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.
112th Congress
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to promote charitable donations of qualified vehicles.
2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3749113th CongressMedicare Demonstration of Coverage for Low Vision Devices Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 4040113th CongressAlice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act1 filingthrough 2014
S. 3187112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act1 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 5381111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3302111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3304111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 841111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
15 filingsthrough 2018
Timothy Scott ThornhillAmerican Council of the Blind IncCovered position: Executive Director13 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Dan SpooneAmerican Council of the Blind IncCovered position: Program Coordinator13 filingsthrough 2024
Swatha NandhakumarAmerican Council of the Blind IncCovered position: Advocacy & Outreach Specialist11 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
