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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
44 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
10 filings
$980K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5021113th CongressHighway and Transportation Funding Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Brian BallardBallard Partners39 filingsthrough 2026
Ana CruzBallard PartnersCovered position: Regional Director to U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (2001-2002)18 filingsthrough 2025
Daniel McfaulBallard Partners Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-road-transportation-builders-association.
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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
7 filings
$800K 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.
Covered position:
18 filingsthrough 2021
Rebecca BennBallard PartnersCovered position: LA to Sen. Cochran, Senate Committee on Appropriations.16 filingsthrough 2021
Gerald John O'HanlonBallard Partners14 filingsthrough 2025
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee8 filingsthrough 2014
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus ; ; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus ; ; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip8 filingsthrough 2014
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst., Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst., Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin., Asst., House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader8 filingsthrough 2014
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Finance ; ; Acting Chief, Healthcare, Senate Finance ; ; Professional Staff, Health Senate Finance ; ; Leg Asst., Senator Baucus8 filingsthrough 2014
Pamela BondiBallard PartnersCovered position: Member, President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis (2017); Member, Presidential Transition Team (2016-2017).2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 12 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
