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.
Thomas LynchAmerican Short Line and Regional Railroad AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus; Subcommittee Staff Director, Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, Senate Environment and Public Works Cmte; Tax Staff, Senate Finance Cmte; Legislative Director, U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall74 filingsthrough 2022
Zachary RadfordAmerican Short Line and Regional Railroad AssociationCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal; Legislative Assistant and Counsel, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal; Legislative Assistant, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Aide, U.S. Sen Jon Tester55 filingsthrough 2024
Mara Stark-AlcalaAmerican Short Line and Regional Railroad AssociationCovered position: Communications Staff, U.S. Senate, Environment and Public Works Committee; Communications Staff, U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
American Short Line and Regional Railroad 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-short-line-and-regional-railroad-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.
BUD
25 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
23 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$450K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
2 filings
$60K 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
To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a safety data collection program for certain 6-axle vehicles, and for other purposes.
7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3782118th CongressShort Line Railroad Relief Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 516119th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the railroad track maintenance credit.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 9522118th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the railroad track maintenance credit.5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 203116th CongressBRACE Act of 20191 filingthrough 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.
27 filings
through 2021
Crystal GitchellAmerican Short Line and Regional Railroad Association16 filingsthrough 2026
Richard ShermanAmerican Short Line and Regional Railroad AssociationCovered position: consultant15 filingsthrough 2026
Keith BormanAmerican Short Line and Regional Railroad Association12 filingsthrough 2011
Stephen M SullivanAmerican Short Line and Regional Railroad Association12 filingsthrough 2011
Richard TimmonsAmerican Short Line and Regional Railroad Association10 filingsthrough 2011
Michael QuickelQuickel Consulting Services, LLCCovered position: Policy Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance; Policy Director, Senate Banking Committee; Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)9 filingsthrough 2026
Jordan BernsteinCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff and Legis. Dir. for Cong Emerson6 filingsthrough 2026
Paul SassCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Deputy Staff Director, House Committee on Small Business; Congressman Sam Graves - Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant6 filingsthrough 2026
Martin WhitmerWhitmer & Worrall, LLC5 filingsthrough 2017
Thomas WorrallWhitmer & Worrall, LLC5 filingsthrough 2017
Corry MarshallWhitmer & Worrall, LLCCovered position: CoS - Congressman Bob Gibbs; Senior LA - Congresswoman Melissa Hart; SA - House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; SA - Congressman Bob Ney5 filingsthrough 2017
Harold HancockBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, House Ways and Means Committee2 filingsthrough 2019
