Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Brightline Holdings LLC (Formerly Virgin Trains USA)
Florida
33 filings from 1 registrant · 2018–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$970K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$970K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Railroads
RRR
33 filings
$970K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
30 filings
$890K 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 — 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. 2541 116th CongressBUILD Act3 filingsthrough 2020
- S. 352 116th CongressBUILD Act3 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Bill Viney Bgr Government AffairsCovered position: Aide to Rep. Scott Klug34 filingsthrough 2026
- Daniel R Murphy Bgr Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to HUD Secretary; Personal Aide Vice President Quayle; Field Rep. Sen. Quayle; Intern Rep. Hiler; Intern, Sen. Quayle34 filingsthrough 2026
- Robert Wood Bgr Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to HHS Secretary; Intern to Rep. Scott Klug29 filingsthrough 2025
- Andrew J Lewin Bgr Government Affairs Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Dennis Moore; Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Max Sandlin; Intern, House Min. Leader Richard Gephardt
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 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: brightline-holdings-llc-formerly-virgin-trains-usa.