Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
National Candle Association
District of Columbia
55 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2025 · latest filed Apr 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$100K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$100K
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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
26 filings
$100K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
17 filings
$80K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Edward P Ayoob Barnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senator Harry Reid; Counsel Asst. Majority Leader26 filingsthrough 2023
- David M. Spooner Barnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Asst. Secretary for Import Admin, US Commerce Dept; Chief Textile & Apparel Negotiator, US Trade Rep; Chief of Staff Rep. Sue Myrick; Prof Staff Member, House Comm on Rules; Comm Dir House Ag Comm; Legislative Counsel, Rep Wes Cooley.21 filingsthrough 2023
- Robert Ganim Barnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant Sen Kelly Ayotte; Legislative Asst Sen Mark Kirk6 filingsthrough 2019
- Liz Lopez
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-candle-association.