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-foreign-service-association.
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.
24 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
24 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
15 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
15 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Insurance
INS
5 filings
$70K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$90K 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.
118th Congress
Saving the Civil Service Act
10 filingsthrough 2024
S. 91118th CongressForgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act10 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3352116th CongressDepartment of State Authorization Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4195119th Congressthe Foreign Service Voluntary Early Retirement Authority Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2204119th CongressProtecting America’s Diplomatic Workforce Act5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3384118th CongressBetter Foreign Policy Through Better Pet Policy Act4 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2193118th CongressFly PETS Act4 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.
Covered position:
13 filingsthrough 2013
David Ngugi MurimiAmerican Foreign Service AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Marion Berry11 filingsthrough 2015
Clint LohseAmerican Foreign Service AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant6 filingsthrough 2013
Geneve MantriAmerican Foreign Service Association5 filingsthrough 2017
Janice G WeinerAmerican Foreign Service Association5 filingsthrough 2015
Robert J. SilvermanAmerican Foreign Service Association5 filingsthrough 2014
Ian HoustonAmerican Foreign Service AssociationCovered position: Executive Director5 filingsthrough 2009
John NalandAmerican Foreign Service AssociationCovered position: President5 filingsthrough 2009
Casey FraryAmerican Foreign Service AssociationCovered position: Legislative Director4 filingsthrough 2010
C Edward DickensAmerican Foreign Service AssociationCovered position: Director of Policy3 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
