American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association
District of Columbia
54 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2022 · latest filed Jan 19, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$6.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$6.3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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-short-line-regional-railroad-association.
$350K
fees reported
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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.
BUD
40 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
$50K 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
Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2015
9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 637114th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 510116th CongressBRACE Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 203116th CongressBRACE Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 612113th CongressSafe and Efficient Transportation Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 721113th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 411113th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3819114th CongressSurface Transportation Extension Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1451115th CongressRAILS Act6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 406115th CongressStopping Mass Hacking Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 749114th CongressPassenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2595114th CongressBuilding Rail Access for Customers and the Economy Act6 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.
Michael Fleming LeggBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Director of Operations, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (2012-2019)5 filingsthrough 2022
Mara Stark-AlcalaChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC5 filingsthrough 2020
David JansenBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Dir., Subcom. on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, House Cmte. on Transportation and Infrastructure (2011-2021); Sr. Prof. Staff, Subcom. on Insular Affairs, Wildlife and Oceans, House Cmte. on Natural Resources (1999-2010)4 filingsthrough 2022
