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
47 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
22 filings
$930K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1405115th CongressFederal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
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: houston-airport-system.
19 filings
$730K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
17 filings
$610K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$30K 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.
115th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3023115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3846113th CongressUnited States Customs and Border Protection Authorization Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 636114th CongressFAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 20161 filingthrough 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.
2 filings
through 2013
Truman ReedAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Dpty. CoS, Leg. Dir., Rep. De La Cruz (2023-2025); Leg. Asst. Rep. De La Cruz (2023); Leg. Asst. Rep. Young (2018-2020, 2020-2021); LC Rep. Young (2018); Intrn Sen. Sullivan (2017); Intrn Sen. Whitehouse (2016).1 filingthrough 2026
Jen Becker-PolletAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Clrk, SenApproFSGG, 5/2024-3/2026; Prof Stff Mmbr, SenApproEWD, 3/2020-4/2024; Rep Lowey: Leg Cnsl, 4/2018-3/2020; Leg Asst, Leg Cnsl, 4/2016-4/2018; Leg Asst, 2/2015-4/2016; Rep Maloney: Leg Asst, 5/2013-9/2013; Leg Fllw, 9/2012-5/2013.1 filingthrough 2026
David SchwietertAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen. Comm. On Commerce, Science, & Transport., Staff Dir (13-15); Sen. Thune, Leg. Dir (07-12); Sen. Comm. On Environ. & Public Works, Waste Management SubComm., Staff Dir (05-06).1 filingthrough 2025
Bill PaxonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld1 filingthrough 2011
