91 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 7, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$5.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$5.4M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$340K
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-traffic-safety-services-association.
$100K
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.
BUD
32 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
25 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
14 filings
$1M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
5 filings
$455K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
4 filings
$319K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
4 filings
$300K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$270K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$110K 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.
6 filings
through 2016
H.R. 4336113th CongressLocal Road Safety Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1195110th CongressSAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2084113th CongressPartnership to Build America Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1776112th CongressOlder Driver and Pedestrian Safety and Roadway Enhancement Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
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.
15 filings
through 2017
Kathryn RuffaloRuffalo and Associates, LLC15 filingsthrough 2012
Chad BradleyChad Bradley& Associates, L.L.C.Covered position: N/A11 filingsthrough 2011
David BellAmerican Traffic Safety Services Association9 filingsthrough 2020
Chad BradleyAmerican Traffic Safety Services AssociationCovered position: Consultant9 filingsthrough 2010
