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-teachers.
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.
61 filings
$22M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
59 filings
$20.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
50 filings
$18.3M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
45 filings
$16.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
44 filings
$15.4M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
42 filings
$16.2M on those filings
Retirement
RET
39 filings
$13.9M on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
34 filings
$13.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
34 filings
$12.8M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
31 filings
$11.8M 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
Protecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act
10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2079114th CongressCourt Legal Access and Student Support (CLASS) Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1005118th CongressEAGLES Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1485118th CongressInsulin for All Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1692118th CongressHealth Care Affordability Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2403118th CongressEnhanced Background Checks 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.
Megan StockhausenAmerican Federation of Teachers
28 filingsthrough 2026
Jane MeroneyAmerican Federation of Teachers23 filingsthrough 2014
Maeve Daly KlineAmerican Federation of Teachers21 filingsthrough 2026
William J CunninghamAmerican Federation of Teachers19 filingsthrough 2014
Cheryl C BirdsallAmerican Federation of Teachers15 filingsthrough 2013
Beth AntunezAmerican Federation of Teachers11 filingsthrough 2016
Sarah TammelleoAmerican Federation of Teachers3 filingsthrough 2015
