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: international-association-of-fire-chiefs.
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.
COM
69 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
68 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
65 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
64 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
60 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
59 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
54 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
52 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Housing
HOU
37 filings
$890K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
36 filings
$980K 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.
118th Congress
Next Generation 9–1–1 Act of 2023
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1814118th CongressFIRE STATION Act8 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Alan CaldwellInternational Association of Fire Chiefs
13 filingsthrough 2012
Ryan WoodwardInternational Association of Fire ChiefsCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of Representative Peter King9 filingsthrough 2022
Brandon AllenInternational Association of Fire Chiefs8 filingsthrough 2020
Lucian DeatonInternational Association of Fire ChiefsCovered position: Intern, Rep. Bob Goodlatte's office8 filingsthrough 2010
Edward HerzigInternational Association of Fire ChiefsCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer6 filingsthrough 2026
Anthony BakerInternational Association of Fire ChiefsCovered position: Sr. Legislative Assistant, Rep. Betty Sutton5 filingsthrough 2012
Tara BairdInternational Association of Fire ChiefsCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate HSGA Committee4 filingsthrough 2008
Francesco HansonInternational Association of Fire ChiefsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Office of Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr.1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 8 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
