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.
John GlaserAssociation of American Railroads74 filingsthrough 2025
Bryan CunninghamPolaris-Hutton Group, LLCCovered position: LC Sen. Gregg; Intern, Sen. BennettPolicy Advsr & LA, Sen Ensign; LA Rep LoBiondo59 filingsthrough 2026
Michael HuttonPolaris-Hutton Group, LLC59 filingsthrough 2026
Dan GansPolaris-Hutton Group, LLC COS, Rep Riley; LD, Rep Martini; Sr LA, Rep. Franks
The filings
The 20 most recent of 639 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-railroads.
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
131 filings
$92.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
92 filings
$79.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
66 filings
$89.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
40 filings
$43.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
34 filings
$21.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
29 filings
$36.5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
19 filings
$19.4M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
16 filings
$18.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
16 filings
$18.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
15 filings
$375K 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.
113th Congress
Railroad Safety and Positive Train Control Extension Act
H.R. 1560114th CongressTo improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance multi-directional sharing of information related to cybersecurity risks and strengthen privacy and civil liberties protections, and for other purposes.11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1679114th CongressBakken Crude Stabilization Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Covered position:
59 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer W MacdonaldAssociation of American Railroads57 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey R. LovengSbl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative assistant for Rep Crapo 1993-1997; Chief of Staff to Rep. Bill Shuster, 2006-201155 filingsthrough 2026
Henry Chad BradleySbl Strategies, LLCCovered position: D. Chief of Staff, US Senate52 filingsthrough 2025
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Max Baucus49 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus ; ; Deputy Asst, Special Asst, Deputy Director EOP49 filingsthrough 2026
John Parker FlynnBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: 1998-2004, Legislative Assistant and Congressional Fellow, Sen. John Breaux45 filingsthrough 2020
Ian JefferiesAssociation of American RailroadsCovered position: ...2010-201342 filingsthrough 2022
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-Tate39 filingsthrough 2024
Jerry CostelloThe Jerry Costello Group, LLCCovered position: Former U.S. House of Representatives38 filingsthrough 2026
CHESTER TRENT LOTT srBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator, January 1989-December 2007; US Congressman, January 1972-December 198937 filingsthrough 2018
John WetzelAssociation of American Railroads37 filingsthrough 2017
Rachel MillerForbes-Tate36 filingsthrough 2023
Adrian ArnakisAssociation of American Railroads33 filingsthrough 2026
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate32 filingsthrough 2023
DANIEL C TATE jrForbes-Tate32 filingsthrough 2022
Michael EspositoFederal Advocates, Inc.32 filingsthrough 2017
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Stupak, 1993-1994 Leg Director, Rep. Kind, 1999-2002 Chief of Staff, Rep. Kind, 2003-200931 filingsthrough 2026
Edward HambergerAssociation of American Railroads31 filingsthrough 2016
JOHN BREAUX jrBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (18 yrs), US Representative (2 yrs)29 filingsthrough 2016
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-Tate27 filingsthrough 2021
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: LA and Leg. Counsel Sen. Mitchell ('85-'94)27 filingsthrough 2014
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Counsel-H. Com. Nat Resources ('87-'08)27 filingsthrough 2014
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate19 filingsthrough 2026
Melissa ConnollyAssociation of American Railroads19 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 81 of 151 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
