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-company.
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.
79 filings
$24.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
70 filings
$24.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
60 filings
$17.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$260K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
9 filings
$260K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
4 filings
$130K 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.
114th Congress
RAILS Act
11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 354114th CongressTo impose a civil penalty against a railroad carrier when a shift change of train employees causes a blockage of vehicular traffic at a grade crossing.11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 505114th CongressDeveloping Standards for Electronic Shipping Papers Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 721114th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 749114th CongressPassenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S. 443114th CongressA bill to prohibit the long-term storage of rail cars on certain railroad tracks unless the Surface Transportation Board has approved the rail carrier's rail car storage plan.11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 532114th CongressHighway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S. 546114th CongressRESPONSE Act of 201611 filingsthrough 2016
S. 637114th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S. 650114th CongressRailroad Safety and Positive Train Control Extension Act11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 769114th CongressTrack, Railroad, and Infrastructure Network Act11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 797114th CongressRailroad Infrastructure Financing Improvement Act11 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Jason Tai
Tai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Dan Lipinski; Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Bill Lipinski; Associate Professional Staff Member, House Transportation& Infrastructure Committee
15 filingsthrough 2025
Matt GinsbergTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC15 filingsthrough 2025
William Joseph GriffinHill & Knowlton Strategies, LLC10 filingsthrough 2013
Donald ItzkoffNossaman LLP10 filingsthrough 2010
Patrick MarshallCanadian National Railway Company6 filingsthrough 2026
Joshua SabinCanadian National Railway Company6 filingsthrough 2026
Augustus MaplesTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies6 filingsthrough 2024
DENNIS FORSGREN jrNossaman LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Sean James WinklerTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC3 filingsthrough 2023
Steve SchultzEnvision Strategy, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate (1998-2000)3 filingsthrough 2022
Alexander David LurieDentons US LLPCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Budget Committee; Chief of Staff, Senator Frank Lautenberg and Senator Debbie Stavenow3 filingsthrough 2021
Gary LapailleDentons US LLP3 filingsthrough 2021
David A WeissDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Dir/Ex Dir, Dep Asst/Asst, Office of US Trade Rep3 filingsthrough 2009
Jennifer Leah PlaceTai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC1 filingthrough 2024
Steve StallmerEnvision Strategy, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Chris Gibson 2010-20151 filingthrough 2020
Jack Alan LevyDla Piper LLP (US)1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 9 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
