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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Automotive Industry
AUT
53 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
28 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2776110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
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: bridgestone-americas-holding-inc.
TRD
27 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
13 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
3 filings
$470K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$170K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$140K 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.
112th Congress
To reduce temporarily the rate of duty on certain machinery for molding unvulcanized rubber for tires.
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5366112th CongressTo reduce temporarily the rate of duty on certain machinery for molding unvulcanized rubber for tires.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5367112th CongressTo reduce temporarily the rate of duty on certain machinery for molding unvulcanized rubber for tubeless radial tires.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5368112th CongressTo reduce temporarily the rate of duty on certain machinery for molding unvulcanized rubber for tubeless radial tires.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5381111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3302111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3401119th CongressRetreaded Tire Jobs, Supply Chain Security and Sustainability Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 5318110th CongressTo provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of entries of certain manufacturing equipment.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8578118th CongressRetreaded Truck Tire Jobs, Supply Chain Security and Sustainability Act of 20241 filingthrough 2024
S. 4685118th CongressRetreaded Truck Tire Jobs, Supply Chain Security and Sustainability Act of 20241 filingthrough 2024
H.R. 4105112th CongressTo apply the countervailing duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 to nonmarket economy countries, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2012
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.
Vic FazioAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
20 filingsthrough 2016
Jeff McmillenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld16 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen KhoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld13 filingsthrough 2016
John GillilandAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl trade cnsl, S Fin Comm, Feb 03-Jan 05; leg asst to Sen Lincoln, Jun 01-Feb 037 filingsthrough 2023
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld7 filingsthrough 2023
Josh TzukerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: for Rep Matheson, Jan 01-May 033 filingsthrough 2010
Robert LeonardAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2009
Francine E FriedmanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2026
David SchwietertAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen. Comm. On Commerce, Science, & Transport., Staff Dir (13-15); Sen. Thune, Leg. Dir (07-12); Sen. Comm. On Environ. & Public Works, Waste Management SubComm., Staff Dir (05-06).2 filingsthrough 2026
Sam OlswangerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg staff, Rep Webster, Jan 11-Jun 11; intrn, Rep Blackburn, Sep 08-Dec 081 filingthrough 2023
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Chief of Staff, Press Secy, Dep Press Secy to Sen. Inhofe1 filingthrough 2022
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern1 filingthrough 2021
Brian Arthur PomperAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2019
