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: national-automatic-merchandising-association.
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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.
MON
45 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
44 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
43 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
42 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
36 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
22 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
21 filings
$902K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
21 filings
$818K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
21 filings
$792K 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
PART Act
9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 672117th CongressCoin Metal Modification Authorization and Cost Savings Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 759115th CongressCurrency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
S. 30114th CongressForty Hours Is Full Time Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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.
James Wesley FisherNational Automatic Merchandising Association
12 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew David BiseniusNational Automatic Merchandising AssociationCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman James Sensenbrenner (WI)10 filingsthrough 2025
