Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Connect Transit
Illinois
37 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2026 · latest filed Jul 18, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$520K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$520K
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.
Transportation
TRA
37 filings
$520K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
26 filings
$370K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 3548 116th CongressCARES Act4 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.
- Anja Graves Cardinal Infrastructure LLC27 filingsthrough 2023
- Bennett E. Resnik Cardinal Infrastructure LLC19 filingsthrough 2022
- Carter Mccoy Cardinal Infrastructure LLC18 filingsthrough 2026
- Auke Mahar-Piersma Cardinal Infrastructure LLCCovered position: Staff Director of Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee 2014-2020, Deputy Staff Director of Highways and Transit Subcommittee 2020-202315 filingsthrough 2026
- Karen Stratman
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 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: connect-transit.