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: americans-for-tax-reform.
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
56 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
54 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
51 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
44 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
42 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
42 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
38 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
38 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
37 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
36 filings
$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.
117th Congress
American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2002117th CongressLet States Cut Taxes Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2165117th CongressExit Tax Prevention Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 848117th CongressGREEN Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 48117th CongressBalanced Budget Accountability Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 510117th CongressUltra-Millionaire Tax Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 730117th CongressLet States Cut Taxes Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 743117th CongressState Fiscal Flexibility Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 749117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 5117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2022 through 2030.8 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.
Ryan EllisAmericans for Tax Reform
27 filingsthrough 2015
Christopher PrandoniAmericans for Tax Reform19 filingsthrough 2015
Jorge MarinAmericans for Tax Reform16 filingsthrough 2018
Martha Corrao DupplerAmericans for Tax Reform16 filingsthrough 2014
James Louis SetterlundAmericans for Tax Reform15 filingsthrough 2021
PAUL EDMUND BLAIR jrAmericans for Tax Reform14 filingsthrough 2020
JAMES SHREWSBURY ERWIN iiiAmericans for Tax Reform12 filingsthrough 2026
Justin SykesAmericans for Tax Reform11 filingsthrough 2017
Kelsey ZahourekAmericans for Tax Reform11 filingsthrough 2012
Kelly CobbAmericans for Tax Reform10 filingsthrough 2012
Brian Marshall JohnsonAmericans for Tax Reform7 filingsthrough 2010
Bryan BashurAmericans for Tax Reform6 filingsthrough 2024
Sandra FabryAmericans for Tax Reform6 filingsthrough 2010
Derek HunterAmericans for Tax Reform5 filingsthrough 2009
Matthew PattersonAmericans for Tax Reform4 filingsthrough 2016
Josh CullingAmericans for Tax Reform3 filingsthrough 2013
Thomas HebertAmericans for Tax Reform2 filingsthrough 2021
Elizabeth KarasmieghanAmericans for Tax Reform2 filingsthrough 2008
Rowan SaydlowskiAmericans for Tax Reform1 filingthrough 2026
