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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: artba.
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.
TAX
61 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
58 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
57 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
55 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
54 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
37 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
34 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
15 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
13 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
13 filings
$1.5M 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.
110th Congress
Ban Asbestos in America Act of 2007
8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1300110th CongressAviation Investment and Modernization Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1870110th CongressClean Water Restoration Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 742110th CongressBan Asbestos in America Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2345110th CongressAmerican Infrastructure Investment and Improvement Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
S. 536119th CongressFair SHARE Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.Con.Res. 312110th CongressRevising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.6 filingsthrough 2008
S.Con.Res. 70110th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5735117th CongressState, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3011117th CongressState, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2245112th CongressPreserve the Waters of the United States Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
67 filings
through 2023
T Peter RuaneArtbaCovered position: Deputy Director, OEA, Office of Sec. of Defense47 filingsthrough 2018
Lauren SchapkerArtba28 filingsthrough 2026
Hank WebsterArtbaCovered position: Intern, Rep. James Langevin24 filingsthrough 2013
William BuechnerArtbaCovered position: Senior Economist, Joint Economic Committee23 filingsthrough 2014
Prianka SharmaArtbaCovered position: Assistant Chief Counsel, Small Business Administration11 filingsthrough 2026
Ed GraberArtba5 filingsthrough 2008
Larry RussellArtbaCovered position: Field Director, Rep. John Thune (1995)1 filingthrough 2008
Brad SantArtba1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
