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.
American International Automobile Dealers Association
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-international-automobile-dealers-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.
TAX
61 filings
$18.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
47 filings
$13.2M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
17 filings
$5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
14 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
12 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Torts
TOR
8 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
4 filings
$1.1M 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
Supply Chain Disruptions Relief Act
10 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1008116th CongressTrade Security Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1710116th CongressAutomotive Jobs Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1799117th CongressPPP Extension Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 617117th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.J.Res. 29114th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to representation case procedures.8 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.
Shannon Elizabeth ScottAmerican International Automobile Dealers AssociationCovered position: Cov Leg Br - LA Cong. John J. Duncan (2004-07)14 filingsthrough 2014
Melanie W BatenchukAmerican International Automobile Dealers AssociationCovered position: CovLegBr-St Ast Con Patrick McHenry (2005-06)11 filingsthrough 2010
Sarah MartinezAmerican International Automobile Dealers Association8 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
