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
46 filings
$3.5M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3838119th CongressStreamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
Ariel WolfVenable LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate, Office of Senator Sam Brownback; Counselor to the Deputy Secretary, Dept. of Transportation26 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak24 filingsthrough 2026
Marco M. SylvesterVenable LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor to Chief of Staff, Dept. of Transportation; Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Robert Pittenger19 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 49 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: autonomous-vehicle-industry-association.
$120K
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.
119th Congress
SAFE LiDAR Act
1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 7390119th CongressSELF DRIVE Act of 20261 filingthrough 2026
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 filingthrough 2025
S. 4429119th CongressConnected Vehicle Security Act of 20261 filingthrough 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.
David BonelliVenable LLPCovered position: Dept. of Transportation, NHTSA, Senior Attorney
15 filingsthrough 2026
Chan D LieuVenable LLPCovered position: Director of Government Affairs, Policy, and Strategic Planning, NHTSA14 filingsthrough 2019
David StricklandVenable LLPCovered position: Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation12 filingsthrough 2019
Tess BrennanVenable LLP9 filingsthrough 2025
James ReillyVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Advisor, Chief of Staff, Senator Tom Carper7 filingsthrough 2024
Renee GibsonAutonomous Vehicle Industry Association5 filingsthrough 2026
Philmore B AndersonNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)5 filingsthrough 2025
Andy KeiserNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI)5 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah (Beatty) RogersNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Meehan; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Conaway; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Randy Forbes; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Curt Weldon5 filingsthrough 2025
Ryan BergerNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director, Sen. Joni Ernst; Legislative Director, Sen. Jeff Chiesa; Special Policy Advisor, Sen. Bob Corker; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Rep. Steven LaTourette5 filingsthrough 2025
Nicholas SadoskiNavigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)Covered position: Director for External Affairs, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict; Deputy Director for Congressional and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State5 filingsthrough 2025
Mike BloomquistVenable LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction5 filingsthrough 2022
JAMES ARDEN BARNETT jrVenable LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee4 filingsthrough 2024
Sarah DonovanVenable LLP1 filingthrough 2026
Judy KimVenable LLP1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 13 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
