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-works-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.
TRA
56 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
44 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
40 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
36 filings
$4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
28 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
25 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
24 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
23 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
23 filings
$3.3M 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.
115th Congress
Water Infrastructure Flexibility Act
7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 465115th CongressWater Quality Improvement Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3863119th CongressVA Mental Health Outreach and Engagement Act5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1497116th CongressWater Quality Protection and Job Creation Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1764116th CongressTo amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to permitting terms, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 530116th CongressAccelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3387115th CongressDrinking Water System Improvement Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 692115th CongressWater Infrastructure Flexibility Act5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 756119th CongressFreedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act4 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1181118th CongressTo amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to permitting terms, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4468114th CongressWater Infrastructure Trust Fund Act of 20164 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.
James FaheyAmerican Public Works Association
22 filingsthrough 2014
Laura Berkey-AmesAmerican Public Works Association18 filingsthrough 2013
Sean GarciaAmerican Public Works Association16 filingsthrough 2021
Ryan McmanusAmerican Public Works Association9 filingsthrough 2024
Michael Frederic AltmanAmerican Public Works Association9 filingsthrough 2023
Josh ReinerAmerican Public Works Association8 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey FineganAmerican Public Works Association6 filingsthrough 2026
Leah HarnishAmerican Public Works Association5 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel JensenAmerican Public Works Association1 filingthrough 2008
