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.
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-of-broadcasters.
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.
TEC
174 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
115 filings
$224.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
89 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
79 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
60 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
25 filings
$72.3M on those filings
Constitution
CON
10 filings
$800K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
10 filings
$200K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
4 filings
$260K 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
Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.
51 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1669118th CongressAM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 202349 filingsthrough 2024
S.Con.Res. 5118th CongressA concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.48 filingsthrough 2024
H.Con.Res. 16113th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.45 filingsthrough 2014
H.Con.Res. 33117th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.44 filingsthrough 2022
H.Con.Res. 13115th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.42 filingsthrough 2018
S.Con.Res. 6113th CongressA concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.41 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 4114th CongressA concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.39 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 12119th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.38 filingsthrough 2026
S.Con.Res. 9117th CongressA concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.38 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 5116th CongressA concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.37 filingsthrough 2020
H.Con.Res. 20116th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.35 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 848111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.33 filingsthrough 2010
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.
National Association of Broadcasters
Covered position: Intern, 2006
56 filingsthrough 2026
Mike MullenNational Association of Broadcasters53 filingsthrough 2021
Scott WeaverWiley Rein LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Katherine Harris (2006-07); Leg. Director, Rep. Katherine Harris (2006); Leg. Assistant, Rep. Katherine Harris (2005); Leg. Assistant, Rep. John Sullivan (2004-05); Leg. Correspondent, Rep. John Sullivan (2003)47 filingsthrough 2022
Gordon H. SmithNational Association of Broadcasters46 filingsthrough 2021
Nicole GustafsonNational Association of BroadcastersCovered position: Rep. Scalise, Coalitions Dir./Counsel; Rep. Cantor, Sr. Policy Advisor/Chief Counsel; Sen. Cornyn - Policy Director/Counsel; Senate Judiciary Committee, Counsel; Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, Exec. Director; Rep. Steve King, Legislative Counsel43 filingsthrough 2026
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee42 filingsthrough 2020
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst, Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst, Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin. Asst, House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader42 filingsthrough 2020
Josh PollackNational Association of BroadcastersCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, The White House (2012-2017); Director of Communications, The White House (2010-2012); Legislative Assistant, Senator Sarbanes' office (2000-2006)40 filingsthrough 2026
James RyanAvoq, LLC40 filingsthrough 2020
Stacey AlexanderAvoq, LLC40 filingsthrough 2020
Robert EpplinEpplin Strategic PlanningCovered position: LD Sen. Collins; LA Sen. Smith; Analyst, OMB Budget Review Division; Prof Staff, Senate Finance Committee; LA Sen. Packwood.39 filingsthrough 2025
John Parker FlynnBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: 1998-2004, Legislative Assistant and Congressional Fellow, Sen. John Breaux38 filingsthrough 2020
Paul BrathwaiteFederal Street Strategies, LLCCovered position: Executive Director, Congressional Black Caucus; Deputy Assistant Secretary, ESA, Department of Labor; Chief of Staff, ESA, Department of Labor; Special Assistant, U.S. Secretary of Labor, Department of Labor.37 filingsthrough 2026
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Exec. Dir. Congressional Black Caucus37 filingsthrough 2017
Jamie GillespieNational Association of Broadcasters35 filingsthrough 2017
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Senator Baucus34 filingsthrough 2020
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.32 filingsthrough 2017
Suzanne HeadNational Association of Broadcasters31 filingsthrough 2016
CHESTER TRENT LOTT srBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator, January 1989-December 2007; US Congressman, January 1972-December 198930 filingsthrough 2018
Myra DandridgeNational Association of Broadcasters30 filingsthrough 2016
