Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Association for Commuter Transportation
Massachusetts
50 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$920K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$920K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
50 filings
$920K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$270K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2 116th CongressMoving Forward Act3 filingsthrough 2020
- H.R. 6052 110th CongressSaving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Brett Garson Smith Garson33 filingsthrough 2026
- James Patrick Smith Smith Garson18 filingsthrough 2023
- Benjamin Odendahl Smith GarsonCovered position: Law and Policy Fellow, Representative Terri Sewell16 filingsthrough 2026
- Jason Pavluchuk Pavluchuk & Associates13 filingsthrough 2018
- Kirsten M Pratt Smith Garson Chief of Staff - Rep. Peter DeFazio
The filings
The 20 most recent of 50 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: association-for-commuter-transportation.