National Association for Surface Finishing — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
National Association for Surface Finishing
* Undetermined
67 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 18, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.6M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
67 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
23 filings
$895K on those filings
Defense
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Christian RichterThe Policy Group68 filingsthrough 2026
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: national-association-for-surface-finishing.
DEF
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
2 filings
$55K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$15K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$15K 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.
