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: international-association-of-fire-fighters.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
HOM
82 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
75 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
72 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Retirement
RET
70 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
64 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
62 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
58 filings
$7M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
53 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
37 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
34 filings
$4.3M 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
An act to authorize appropriations for the United States Fire Administration and firefighter assistance grant programs, to advance the benefits of nuclear energy, and for other purposes.
11 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 413111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2921119th CongressFederal Firefighter Cancer Detection and Prevention Act of 20259 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 82118th CongressSocial Security Fairness Act of 20239 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.
Robb WattersThe Madison Group22 filingsthrough 2026
Marcus Sebastian MasonThe Madison Group22 filingsthrough 2026
Evan Scott DavisInternational Association of Fire Fighters20 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew B KeelenThe Keelen Group, LLC20 filingsthrough 2019
Scott RobinsonInternational Association of Fire Fighters12 filingsthrough 2026
Samantha GainesInternational Association of Fire Fighters11 filingsthrough 2026
Frank MccarthyThe Keelen Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director - Representative Sue Kelly8 filingsthrough 2017
Michael Joseph FalenckiThe Keelen Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Congressman Sam Graves8 filingsthrough 2011
Nate SloanInternational Association of Fire Fighters8 filingsthrough 2010
David Eugene LangInternational Association of Fire Fighters7 filingsthrough 2021
Stephen BorgThe Keelen Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff - Representative Timothy V. Johnson7 filingsthrough 2015
James Jong ChoInternational Association of Fire Fighters7 filingsthrough 2012
Christopher BartleyInternational Association of Fire Fighters3 filingsthrough 2026
W Eric DellThe Keelen Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Chief of Staff3 filingsthrough 2008
Chyna MeltonThe Madison GroupCovered position: Special Advisor, CISA 2021-2022; Legislative Aide, Office of Rep. Cedric Richmond 2018-2021; Digital Press Secretary, Office of Rep. Val Demings 2018; Legislative Intern, Office of Rep. Cedric Richmond 20172 filingsthrough 2024
Aimee L NicholsThe Keelen Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2010
Chelsea DavisInternational Association of Fire Fighters1 filingthrough 2026
Phil CordovaInternational Association of Fire Fighters1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 5 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
