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: motor-equipment-manufacturers-association.
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.
TRD
75 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
69 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
68 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
63 filings
$7.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
59 filings
$6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
51 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
43 filings
$7.6M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
39 filings
$5M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
31 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
28 filings
$3.2M 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
American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2023
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 866118th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1304117th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 420117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 749117th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 936117th CongressINFORM Consumers Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 764116th CongressUnited States Reciprocal Trade Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1225115th CongressVehicle Innovation Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
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.
12 filingsthrough 2014
Vin WeberClark & WeinstockCovered position: Member of Congress (MN)12 filingsthrough 2011
Ed KutlerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Assistant, House Republican Whip12 filingsthrough 2011
Ana Maria MeuwissenMotor & Equipment Manufacturers Association10 filingsthrough 2026
Nelson C GarciaMotor & Equipment Manufacturers Association10 filingsthrough 2011
Carter Matthew SalwinMotor & Equipment Manufacturers Association9 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher Robert DarcyClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Ron Marlenee9 filingsthrough 2011
Sandra K StuartClark & WeinstockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Vic Fazio9 filingsthrough 2011
Margaret McglinchClark & WeinstockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tim Walz9 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan GentileMotor & Equipment Manufacturers Association7 filingsthrough 2026
Niles GodesClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg Assistant, Sen. Quentin Burdick7 filingsthrough 2011
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg cnsl to Rep Northup, 1999; leg cnsl to Rep Inglis, 1997-99.4 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph G. FawknerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Snr Pol Adv for Rep. Carol D. Miller, Feb 20 - Jan 22.3 filingsthrough 2025
David GiordanoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl Trade Policy Advsr., House Ways & Means Comm (2022-2026); Prof. Staff Mbr, House Ways & Means Comm (2019-2022); Leg. Asst., House Ways & Means Comm (2017-2019).2 filingsthrough 2026
David J BerteauClark & WeinstockCovered position: Dep Press Sec, Sen. Dan Coats2 filingsthrough 2008
