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 FletcherAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Terminated56 filingsthrough 2025
Brent GardnerAmericans for Prosperity55 filingsthrough 2026
Kelly Evelyn Elizabeth MerkelAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Pentagon Office of the Commandant GS-14; Office of the Secretary of Defense.44 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Dingell
The filings
The 20 most recent of 71 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: americans-for-prosperity.
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.
HCR
42 filings
$9.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
39 filings
$9.6M on those filings
Veterans
VET
38 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
37 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
35 filings
$9.4M on those filings
Banking
BAN
32 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
26 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
25 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
24 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
23 filings
$6.4M 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.
119th Congress
SPEAK Act of 2025
8 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2309119th CongressMedicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act8 filingsthrough 2026
S.J.Res. 10117th CongressA joint resolution to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 955119th CongressHOPE Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1603117th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Americans for Prosperity
Covered position: Senator Joseph Lieberman; Intern.
36 filingsthrough 2026
Jason BauknechtAmericans for Prosperity29 filingsthrough 2020
Marilinda GarciaAmericans for Prosperity28 filingsthrough 2023
Akash ChouguleAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Professional Staff Member, US House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, Ranking Member Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5).24 filingsthrough 2025
Macarthur ZimmermanAmericans for Prosperity21 filingsthrough 2020
Lauren StewartAmericans for Prosperity20 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew SilverAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Rep. Warren Davidson; Legislative Director.20 filingsthrough 2025
Christopher HudsonAmericans for Prosperity20 filingsthrough 2024
Helder TosteAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Rep. Devin Nunes; Paid Intern. Rep. Erik Paulsen; Staff Assistant.18 filingsthrough 2026
Christine Harbin HansonAmericans for Prosperity18 filingsthrough 2018
William BurgerAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Rep. Scott Tipton Staff Assistant; Director of Operations. Rep. Jeff Forenberry; Senior Advisor.17 filingsthrough 2026
Theodore Lee EllisAmericans for Prosperity17 filingsthrough 2022
Josellin Nicole CastilloAmericans for Prosperity17 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel TillsonAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Senator Roger Wicker; Special Assistant, Legislative Assistant Congressman Chris Smith, Special Assistant for Scheduling and Legislation.16 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew KeenanAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Rep. Fulcher; Communication Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent. Rep. Labrador; Scheduler, Staff Assistant.15 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew Joseph KorstAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Terminated14 filingsthrough 2025
Katelyn Reid BledsoeAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: VA Delegate Mike Watson; Legislative Assistant.13 filingsthrough 2026
DANIEL DAVID CALDWELL jrAmericans for Prosperity13 filingsthrough 2020
Megan BaileyAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Congressman Bill Posey, Paid internship and Senator Rick Scott, Professional Staffer.12 filingsthrough 2025
Faith Best BurnsAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: United States Department of Agriculture; Natural Resources Conservation Service, Policy Advisor.11 filingsthrough 2026
Casey Christine HigginsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Asst to Spkr for Policy and Trade Cnsl, Paul Ryan, Nov 15-Jan 19; Trade Cncl to House Ways & Means, Jan 15-Nov 15; LC to Rep. Paul Ryan, Oct 11-Jan 15; Law Clrk House Budget Comm, Sep 09-May 10.11 filingsthrough 2024
Michael NudoAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Constituent Service Liaison; U.S. Army Specialist E-4.10 filingsthrough 2026
Dominic NordelAmericans for Prosperity10 filingsthrough 2024
Luis CardonaAmericans for Prosperity8 filingsthrough 2022
Kristin SkrzyckiAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Rep. Gregory Murphy; Chief of Staff. Rep. James Hagedorn; Cheif of Staff. National Drug Control; Chief of Staff. Dep. Health and Human Services; Office of the Secretary, Deputy Chief of Staff. Rep. Thomas Price; Chief of Staff.6 filingsthrough 2026
Scott Alan RauschAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: Policy Advisor; Senator Ron Johnson. Deputy Chief of Staff & Legislative Director; Congressman Andrew Garbarino. Deputy Director of Congressional Relations; U.S. Peace Corps. Legislative Director; Congressman Alex Mooney.6 filingsthrough 2026
Alexandra EdmondsAmericans for ProsperityCovered position: SSpecial Assistant; U.S. Department of Education. Staff Assistant; U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce.5 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 19 of 35 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
