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-federation-of-state-county-and-municipal-employees.
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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.
LBR
67 filings
$41.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
67 filings
$41.3M on those filings
Retirement
RET
66 filings
$40.7M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
64 filings
$39.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
59 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
59 filings
$36.3M on those filings
Education
EDU
58 filings
$36M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
52 filings
$32.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
51 filings
$31.8M on those filings
Housing
HOU
51 filings
$30.7M 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
Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act
11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 415114th CongressStop Corporate Inversions Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2775114th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 636114th CongressFAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 201610 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 879114th CongressAx the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2722116th CongressSecuring America’s Federal Elections Act9 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.
through 2025
Barbara CoufalAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees43 filingsthrough 2018
Frances BernsteinAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees36 filingsthrough 2016
Karl U StarkAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees34 filingsthrough 2021
Scott L FreyAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Deputy Commissioner- Legislation & Congressional Affairs-SSA32 filingsthrough 2020
Katie L SmithAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Deputy Scheduler for Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Legislative Aide for Sen. Michael Bennet26 filingsthrough 2021
Charles M LovelessAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees24 filingsthrough 2014
Getsemani YanezAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Interim Staff Assistant for Rep. Solomon Ortiz (TX); Staff Assistant/Legislative Aide for Rep. Ed Pastor (AZ)23 filingsthrough 2020
Nanine MeiklejohnAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees23 filingsthrough 2014
Cynthia Pauletta BradleyAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees19 filingsthrough 2013
Catherine FinnertyAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees18 filingsthrough 2026
Laura MacdonaldAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Staff Asst, Legis Correspondent & Legis Asst-Rep Brad Sherman (CA), Legis Asst-Rep Hilda Solis (CA), Special Asst-DOL, Office of Sec., CoS & Sr Legis Officer-DOL Office of Cong & Intergov. Affairs, Senior Advisor-DOL Office of the Secretary17 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher Douglas BrownAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Staff Assistant for Rep. Mark DeSaulnier16 filingsthrough 2026
Desiree HoffmanAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees14 filingsthrough 2026
Marta DavidAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Rep Gephardt 1997-2002; Rep Hoyer 2002-201014 filingsthrough 2014
Holly BiglowAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charles Rangel (NY)11 filingsthrough 2021
Bailey ChildersAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: paid intern, Senate Small Business Committee, 20029 filingsthrough 2022
Andrea Zuniga DibitettoAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees9 filingsthrough 2010
Jill ButlerAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Congressional Relations Specialist, Social Security Administration Office of Legislation Investigative Counsel, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives6 filingsthrough 2016
Elizabeth Schoff WatsonAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Assistant Secretary, Department of Labor Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs; Labor Policy Director and Chief Labor Counsel, House Education and Workforce Committee Democratic Staff5 filingsthrough 2026
Gary GorskiAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Sen. Claire McCaskill, Legislative Assistant; Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Senior Policy Advisor5 filingsthrough 2019
Gerald W McenteeAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees5 filingsthrough 2010
Alexandra TownsendAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: n/a4 filingsthrough 2022
Victoria GoncalvesAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees2 filingsthrough 2022
Jamie PascalAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees2 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew Stark BluminAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees2 filingsthrough 2016
Jessica RobinsonAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesCovered position: Staff Asst, House Comm on Govt Reform/Oversight2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 14 of 31 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
