Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Financial Group, Inc.
Ohio
43 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 18, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Insurance
INS
38 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1810 110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies.1 filingthrough 2008
- S. 1366 110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies.1 filingthrough 2008
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Robert D. Lehman Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: CoS Portman 11-15; CoS OMB 06-07; CoS USTR 05-06; CoS Rep Portman 03-05; CoS Rep Combest 93-03; LD/LA Rep Combest; Lobby Spec. House Clerk 88-8939 filingsthrough 2026
- JEFFREY LEWIS WIEAND jr Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: Counsel Rep. Whip Scalise (17-22); LD Rep. Marino (15- 17);Counsel Rep. Fitzpatrick (14-15); SJC Legal Fellow (13- 14);SA HT&I Comm. (09-10)7 filingsthrough 2026
- Timothy Martin Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GC/Senior LA Rep. Tipton (14-15); LD Rep. Davis (15-17)5 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
The 20 most recent of 43 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-financial-group-inc.