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.
Maria Luisa SimpsonAssociation of American PublishersCovered position: U.S. Copyright Office: Register of Copyrights (2011-2016); Associate Register and Director of Policy and International Affairs (2008-2010; Deputy General Counsel (2007-2008)48 filingsthrough 2026
Allan AdlerAssociation of American Publishers48 filingsthrough 2020
Robert W GoodlatteGoodlatte Group, LLC F.K.A. Robert GoodlatteCovered position: Member of Congress 1993-201929 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas H AllenAssociation of American PublishersCovered position: US House of Representative
The filings
The 20 most recent of 115 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-of-american-publishers.
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.
EDU
62 filings
$20.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
50 filings
$14.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
13 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Constitution
CON
7 filings
$972K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
6 filings
$855K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$330K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
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.
115th Congress
HONEST Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1695115th CongressRegister of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1772115th CongressAIM HIGH Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 890115th CongressCopyright Office for the Digital Economy Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 905115th CongressYou Own Devices Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 801111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2107116th CongressAffordable College Textbook Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2426116th CongressCASE Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1036116th CongressAffordable College Textbook Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1059116th CongressFINISH Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 775116th CongressScientific Integrity Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 338115th CongressScientific Integrity Act7 filingsthrough 2018
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.
24 filingsthrough 2016
Shelley HusbandAssociation of American PublishersCovered position: Staff Director & General Counsel - House Judiciary Committee (Majority); Chief of Staff - Office of Rep. Bob Goodlatte; Legislative Director & Counsel - Office of Rep. Bob Goodlatte21 filingsthrough 2026
Kelly DensonAssociation of American Publishers20 filingsthrough 2024
Matthew BarblanGoodlatte Group, LLC F.K.A. Robert Goodlatte17 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew BarblanAssociation of American Publishers17 filingsthrough 2022
James C. MaxwellAssociation of American Publishers13 filingsthrough 2026
Carl A AndersonVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Chirstopher Smith12 filingsthrough 2017
Sofia Castillo MoralesAssociation of American Publishers10 filingsthrough 2019
Patricia L JuddAssociation of American Publishers6 filingsthrough 2009
Steven TeppSentinel Worldwide5 filingsthrough 2019
Leslee Koch GilbertVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: DepCommunicationsDir/LegAsst, Congressman Ralph M. Hall5 filingsthrough 2015
Eric BagwellAssociation of American Publishers4 filingsthrough 2026
Terrence HartAssociation of American Publishers4 filingsthrough 2024
Kwabena Kwabena NsiahThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Congressional Black Caucus, Policy Director; Rep. Richmond, Chief of Staff3 filingsthrough 2024
Rachel FertigAssociation of American Publishers3 filingsthrough 2015
Patricia Scott SchroederAssociation of American Publishers3 filingsthrough 2008
Jorge A AguilarThegroup DC, LLCCovered position: Communications Intern, Rep. Grayson; CHCI Public Policy Fellow, Office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid2 filingsthrough 2024
Carl MaxwellAssociation of American Publishers2 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 8 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
