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.
David Michael LeonardAmerican Sportfishing Association68 filingsthrough 2026
George CooperForbes-Tate53 filingsthrough 2026
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002)46 filingsthrough 2026
Gordon RobertsonAmerican Sportfishing Association24 filingsthrough 2014
Scott Brian Gudes
The filings
The 20 most recent of 140 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-sportfishing-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
127 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
115 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
77 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
52 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
52 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
20 filings
$770K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 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
Red Snapper Regulatory Reform Act
15 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1747116th CongressNational Fish Habitat Conservation Through Partnerships Act14 filingsthrough 2020
S. 754116th CongressNational Fish Habitat Conservation Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 200115th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act13 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1335114th CongressStrengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act13 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1514115th CongressHELP for Wildlife Act12 filingsthrough 2018
S. 556114th CongressSportsmen's Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20169 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 615118th CongressProtecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 913118th CongressRISEE Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
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.
American Sportfishing Association
16 filingsthrough 2018
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Senator Rob Portman Communications Director, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Mike DeWine13 filingsthrough 2020
Elizabeth YranskiAmerican Sportfishing Association13 filingsthrough 2015
Melanie C. SturmAmerican Sportfishing Association10 filingsthrough 2016
J Michael NussmanAmerican Sportfishing Association6 filingsthrough 2009
Elizabeth GreerCauthen Forbes & WilliamsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd4 filingsthrough 2012
Mary CharlesAmerican Sportfishing Association4 filingsthrough 2008
Stacey RollandForbes-TateCovered position: Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2013-2016); Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (2010-2013); Special Assistant, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2009-2010); Tax Counsel, Rep. Xavier Becerra (2007-2009)3 filingsthrough 2021
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (2014-2017).2 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd (2001-2009)2 filingsthrough 2020
