American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
District of Columbia
182 filings from 10 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Mar 20, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$39.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$31.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$7.5M
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.
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-institute-of-certified-public-accountants.
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.
56 filings
$34.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
56 filings
$29.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
42 filings
$22.9M on those filings
Retirement
RET
34 filings
$26.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
25 filings
$17.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
24 filings
$18.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
23 filings
$18.4M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
15 filings
$600K on those filings
Postal
POS
10 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
10 filings
$600K 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.
16 filings
through 2014
S. 420113th CongressTax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 201316 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4318110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the penalty on the understatement of taxpayer's liability by tax return preparers.15 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1564113th CongressAudit Integrity and Job Protection Act14 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 933113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 201314 filingsthrough 2014
S. 273113th CongressA bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.14 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.14 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 436111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.14 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2041113th CongressTo modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.13 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2989111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2315114th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Eileen Sherr
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Covered position: Rep JoAnn Davis; Rep Mark Kennedy
31 filingsthrough 2016
Edward S KarlAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants31 filingsthrough 2016
Estuardo Valdemar RodriguezThe Raben GroupCovered position: Attorney, HUD28 filingsthrough 2017
Karen MarangiThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legis. Sec., Sen. Alan Cranston; Counsel, Sen. Leah28 filingsthrough 2017
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning ; ; Legislative Director, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning27 filingsthrough 2019
Andrew BarbourThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. USTR for Congressional Affairs, USTR ; ; Legislative Assistant, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak27 filingsthrough 2019
Diana Huntress DeemAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants26 filingsthrough 2016
Melissa Marie LabantAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants26 filingsthrough 2016
Lindsey LedwinTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Prof. Staff, Perm. Subcomm. on Investigations22 filingsthrough 2017
Melanie LauridsenAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants20 filingsthrough 2016
Kathryn KileyAmerican Institute of Certified Public AccountantsCovered position: Rep Stevan Pearce; Rep Donald Manzullo; Rep JoAnn Davis; Rep Mark Kennedy20 filingsthrough 2016
Brady KingAmerican Institute of Certified Public AccountantsCovered position: Rep Chet Edwards; Sen Mark Dayton; Sen Edward Kennedy; Rep Allen Boyd; Rep Tim Maloney; Sen Roland Burris20 filingsthrough 2016
Kristin M EspositoAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants19 filingsthrough 2016
Peter M KravitzAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants19 filingsthrough 2013
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner17 filingsthrough 2019
Jeffrey ShapiroTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Adrian Smith17 filingsthrough 2016
Benson S GoldsteinAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants17 filingsthrough 2013
Sheila MurphyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Senator Daschle17 filingsthrough 2013
Charles E LandesAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants17 filingsthrough 2013
Jina EtienneAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants16 filingsthrough 2015
Yiqiong Amy WangAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants15 filingsthrough 2016
Cristina KrasowTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Executive Office, Senate Sergeant at Arms15 filingsthrough 2014
Drew CantorTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Sr. Comms. Advsr, Sen. Republican Conference14 filingsthrough 2016
Cari WestonAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants14 filingsthrough 2016
Marc Alan HymanAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants14 filingsthrough 2012
Summer MersingerThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: DC Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; S Policy Adv, Senate Commerce Committee; Dep Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; Gen Couns, Sen John Thune; Exec Dir, Sen John Thune; Confidential Assist, OPIC; Exec Assist, Rep John Thune; Staff Assist, Rep John Thune13 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 57 of 94 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
