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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Automotive Industry
AUT
89 filings
$14.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Manufacturing
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Christopher WenkKia Corporation (Formerly Known as Kia Motors Corporation)33 filingsthrough 2025
David MalechKia Corporation (Formerly Known as Kia Motors Corporation)Covered position: LD, Rep. Kevin Brady; Deputy COS/LD, Rep. John Campbell31 filingsthrough 2022
John AndersonKia Corporation (Formerly Known as Kia Motors Corporation)31 filingsthrough 2017
Robert D. LehmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: CoS Portman 11-15; CoS OMB 06-07; CoS USTR 05-06; CoS Rep Portman 03-05; CoS Rep Combest 93-03; LD/LA Rep Combest; Lobby Spec. House Clerk 88-8930 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 91 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Kia Corporation (Formerly Known as Kia Motors Corporation)
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: kia-corporation-formerly-known-as-kia-motors-corporation.
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.
MAN
9 filings
$1.4M 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.
through 2025
Jonathan Raphael YarowskyWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GCHouseJudCom82-95; SACPres95-9821 filingsthrough 2025
Seung-Hoon ChoiKia Corporation (Formerly Known as Kia Motors Corporation)17 filingsthrough 2017
Laurie HolmesKia Corporation (Formerly Known as Kia Motors Corporation)14 filingsthrough 2026
Dosik KimKia Corporation (Formerly Known as Kia Motors Corporation)13 filingsthrough 2013
Talia DavisKia Corporation (Formerly Known as Kia Motors Corporation)12 filingsthrough 2025
