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: motion-picture-association-inc.
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.
68 filings
$44M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
67 filings
$43.6M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
60 filings
$40.5M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
60 filings
$39.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
56 filings
$37.5M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
44 filings
$29.7M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
43 filings
$27.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
36 filings
$25.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
36 filings
$24.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
32 filings
$24.2M 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
To prohibit the use of Department of Defense funds for adult cabaret performances.
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3826118th CongressUSS Frank E. Evans Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3849118th CongressRural Energy Savings 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.
Neil FriedMotion Picture Association, Inc.Covered position: Counsel - House Energy & Commerce Comm
Michael P O'LearyMotion Picture Association, Inc.23 filingsthrough 2013
Hap RigbyMotion Picture Association, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (2011-17); Legislative Assistant, Senator Jim DeMint (2006-10); Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jim DeMint (2005-06)14 filingsthrough 2026
Alivia Paden RobertsMotion Picture Association, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to the Vice President (White House); Special Asst. to the Dir. of Public Affairs, Deputy WH Liaison (DOJ); Deputy Press Secretary, Press Asst. (House E&C Cmte); Comm. Intern, Democratic Policy & Comm. Cmte; Leg. Intern, Rep. Kelly MS-0112 filingsthrough 2026
Joanna McintoshMotion Picture Association, Inc.Covered position: Chair, Section 301 Committee, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President; Associate General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President11 filingsthrough 2017
Cybele DaleyMotion Picture Association, Inc.Covered position: Data Entry Asst.; Intern - Sen. Deconcini11 filingsthrough 2013
Dan GlickmanMotion Picture Association, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2009
