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: intl-assn-of-sheet-metal-air-rail-transp-workers-transp-div.
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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.
LBR
53 filings
$18.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
44 filings
$15.2M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
41 filings
$14.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
39 filings
$13.9M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
9 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
8 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
7 filings
$2M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
6 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
6 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
6 filings
$1.6M 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.
117th Congress
Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021
9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 303117th CongressEssential Transportation Employee Safety Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 476117th CongressPandemic Heroes Compensation Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 899117th CongressIntercity Passenger Rail Trust Fund Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 5117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2022 through 2030.9 filingsthrough 2022
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.
9 filings
through 2018
Mac RouthInt'L Ass'N of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transp. Workers, Transp. Div.5 filingsthrough 2016
Donald RoachInt'L Ass'N of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transp. Workers, Transp. Div.4 filingsthrough 2026
James M BrunkenhoeferInt'L Ass'N of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transp. Workers, Transp. Div.4 filingsthrough 2008
