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-public-health-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.
ENV
51 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
45 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
44 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
42 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
37 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
35 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
31 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
31 filings
$905K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
27 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
23 filings
$679K 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.
117th Congress
Background Check Expansion Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1603116th CongressAlan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 772115th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 261115th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 806115th CongressOzone Standards Implementation Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2709114th CongressProfessional's Access To Health Workforce Integration Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 311116th CongressBorn-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5115th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S.J.Res. 31119th CongressA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act".4 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1280117th CongressGeorge Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 1446117th CongressEnhanced Background Checks Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3297117th CongressPublic Health Workforce Loan Repayment Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Georges C BenjaminAmerican Public Health Association
5 filingsthrough 2009
Lisa Nicole BassfordAmerican Public Health Association5 filingsthrough 2009
Lucy MelcherAmerican Public Health Association4 filingsthrough 2012
Jesseca BoyerAmerican Public Health Association4 filingsthrough 2010
