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.
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: canadian-national-railway.
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
29 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
29 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
29 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
17 filings
$790K on those filings
Torts
TOR
6 filings
$770K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$80K 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.
110th Congress
Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2007
9 filingsthrough 2008
S. 638113th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1806111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 233111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 272111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 146111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 30112th CongressTaking Responsible Action for Community Safety Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 158112th CongressSurface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 49112th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1789111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Chambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC
25 filingsthrough 2015
David ThompsonBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (1999-2002); Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (1993-1999)19 filingsthrough 2025
Katie KachelBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Senator Barbara Mikulski (2003-2005)19 filingsthrough 2025
Donald John NordenBlank Rome Government Relations19 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph L ColaneriFoley & Lardner LLP18 filingsthrough 2014
Gloria R CombeCombe Consltant, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2012
ROBERT C GEIST jrFoley & Lardner LLP9 filingsthrough 2010
Philip G KikoFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: HseJudiciary/ScienceCmte/RpSensenbrenner/CAO9 filingsthrough 2010
James P. MoranNelson Mullins Riley & ScarboroughCovered position: Member of Congress (1991-2015)8 filingsthrough 2022
Michael Fleming LeggBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Director of Operations, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (2012-2019)7 filingsthrough 2022
Adam NordstromChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Office of Senator Brownback7 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew NehringThe Vogel Group6 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer G EllisonBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Armed Services Committee (2004-2006)6 filingsthrough 2022
DAVID THOMAS RALSTON jrFoley & Lardner LLP6 filingsthrough 2014
Matthew B. KeelenThe Vogel Group5 filingsthrough 2026
