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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: department-for-professional-employees-afl-cio.
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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.
BUD
37 filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
33 filings
$90K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
24 filings
$120K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
18 filings
$80K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
16 filings
$70K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
12 filings
$40K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
9 filings
Unemployment
UNM
8 filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$40K on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$50K 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.
H.R. 4119th CongressRescissions Act of 20252 filingsthrough 2025
S. 3813119th CongressCLEAR Act2 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1238113th CongressKeep Student Loans Affordable Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2360113th CongressStop Corporate Inversions Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 953113th CongressStudent Loan Affordability Act2 filingsthrough 2013
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.
through 2020
Eric GeistDepartment for Professional Employees, AFL-CIOCovered position: Assistant to the President5 filingsthrough 2015
Alexis Spencer NotabartoloDepartment for Professional Employees, AFL-CIOCovered position: Researcher and Representative3 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew DicksonDepartment for Professional Employees, AFL-CIOCovered position: Legislative Aide, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown1 filingthrough 2026
Pamela WilsonDepartment for Professional Employees, AFL-CIOCovered position: Assistant to the President1 filingthrough 2008
Michael GildeaDepartment for Professional Employees, AFL-CIOCovered position: President1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
