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-federation-of-musicians.
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.
TAX
29 filings
$939K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
27 filings
$653K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
22 filings
$298K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
18 filings
$344K on those filings
Retirement
RET
12 filings
$456K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
11 filings
$419K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
10 filings
$10K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
8 filings
$288K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$121K 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.
114th Congress
Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 17114th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.6 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 397116th CongressRehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2147115th CongressButch Lewis Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 658113th CongressTo authorize and request the President to award the congressional Medal of Honor to Arthur Jibilian for actions behind enemy lines during World War II while a member of the United States Navy and the Office of Strategic Services.3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 7913118th CongressGenerative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9551118th CongressNO FAKES Act of 20242 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.
W Benjamin Falk
American Federation of Musicians
Covered position: Legislative Assistant
4 filingsthrough 2009
Edgardo MalagaAmerican Federation of MusiciansCovered position: President, Metropolitan Washington, DC Federation of Musicians3 filingsthrough 2015
Jennifer MondieAmerican Federation of MusiciansCovered position: Professional Musician3 filingsthrough 2015
RAYMOND M HAIR jrAmerican Federation of MusiciansCovered position: International President, American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada3 filingsthrough 2015
Laura Marie BrigandiAmerican Federation of MusiciansCovered position: Legislative Assistant1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
