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-rental-association.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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
76 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
32 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
31 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Education
EDU
24 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
22 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
21 filings
$982K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
17 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$600K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$150K 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.
114th Congress
To repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
16 filingsthrough 2016
S. 183114th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act16 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 763113th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.16 filingsthrough 2014
S. 603113th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act16 filingsthrough 2014
S. 20112th CongressAmerican Job Protection Act13 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 636114th CongressFAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 201612 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1370112th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.12 filingsthrough 2012
S. 431116th CongressPARTNERS Act8 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Michael Kenneth HenryAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Professional Staff, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
32 filingsthrough 2017
James Dean MassieAlpine Group Partners, LLC.32 filingsthrough 2016
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.27 filingsthrough 2025
BOB R BROOKS jrCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: ​Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey.25 filingsthrough 2022
Lauren BazelAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Senior Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. John Kerry; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. William Cowan16 filingsthrough 2017
David BridgesCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. John Barrasso; Tax Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed.14 filingsthrough 2026
Drew GoeslCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ross; Communications Director, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Secretary, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Press Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln.13 filingsthrough 2026
Jack Macgregor CampbellCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Finance Cmte.; General Counsel, Senate Finance Cmte.; Leg. Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Counsel/ Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Asst. U.S. Trade Rep. for Congressional Affairs, President Obama.11 filingsthrough 2025
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th district; Ranking member, House Ways and Means Committee; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation.9 filingsthrough 2018
Kevin Michael GernAmerican Rental AssociationCovered position: VP, Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew HiteAmerican Rental Association4 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 12 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
