American Foundry Society — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Foundry Society
Illinois
68 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 26, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.3M
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.
Stephanie SalmonPotomac Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Loren Sweatt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration53 filingsthrough 2026
Alicia OmanParagon Government Relations8 filingsthrough 2010
Stephanie SalmonParagon Government Relations8 filingsthrough 2010
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-foundry-society.
$320K
fees reported
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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.
TAX
44 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
35 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
25 filings
$830K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$480K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
15 filings
$450K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$530K on those filings
Education
EDU
13 filings
$410K on those filings
Defense
DEF
10 filings
$30K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
8 filings
$270K on those filings
Housing
HOU
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.
H.R. 447117th CongressNational Apprenticeship Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1078117th CongressBUILDS Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1166117th CongressALIGN Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 480117th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 659117th CongressDRIVE Safe Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 749117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 864117th CongressJOBS Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1118th CongressLower Energy Costs Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2667118th CongressFighting Trade Cheats Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2673118th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 805118th CongressFighting Trade Cheats 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.
