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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Automotive Industry
AUT
64 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$100K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2460115th CongressTo amend chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, to improve access to motor vehicle information, and for other purposes.11 filingsthrough 2018
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: automotive-recyclers-association.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
WAS
1 filing
$10K 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.
118th Congress
FAIR Act
7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 394113th CongressMetal Theft Prevention Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1181114th CongressVehicle Safety Improvement Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5967114th CongressTo amend chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, to improve access to motor vehicle information, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 617114th CongressRECALL Act4 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4364113th CongressMotor Vehicle Safety Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2151113th CongressEarly Warning Reporting System Improvement Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 154119th CongressColorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 2238119th CongressPART Act2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 5024119th CongressStop PRC Economic Espionage Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
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.
10 filingsthrough 2018
Lee TerryKelley Drye & Warren LLPCovered position: Member of Congress10 filingsthrough 2018
Anthony LivingstonAutomotive Recyclers AssociationCovered position: Director, Government Affairs8 filingsthrough 2010
David KellyStorm King Strategies, LLCCovered position: Acting Administrator/Chief of Staff - NHTSA6 filingsthrough 2012
Michael Edward WilsonAutomotive Recyclers AssociationCovered position: CEO6 filingsthrough 2010
Elizabeth VermetteAutomotive Recyclers AssociationCovered position: Director Government Affairs3 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
