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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
70 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
70 filings
$6.9M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1113th CongressTax Reform Act of 20149 filingsthrough 2014
S. 727113th CongressFinancial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act9 filingsthrough 2014
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-foreign-trade-council-inc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2011
6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1586112th CongressSecurity Enhancement and Jobs Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 727112th CongressBipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1083111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1944111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1114th CongressReserved for the Speaker.5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 727114th CongressBTU Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2165111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 5061111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1605119th CongressInternational Competition for American Jobs Act3 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2976119th CongressHIRE Act3 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
J Daniel O'FlahertyNational Foreign Trade Council, Inc30 filingsthrough 2016
Tiffany L SmithNational Foreign Trade Council, IncCovered position: Office of the US Trade Representative19 filingsthrough 2026
JOHN FRANCIS PICKEL jrNational Foreign Trade Council, Inc11 filingsthrough 2025
Bradley Raymond WoodNational Foreign Trade Council, Inc8 filingsthrough 2026
Margaret CekutaNational Foreign Trade Council, IncCovered position: United States Trade Representative and Council of Economic Advisers7 filingsthrough 2023
Benjamin Charles WastlerNational Foreign Trade Council, IncCovered position: U.S. Customs Border Protection6 filingsthrough 2022
John PickelNational Foreign Trade Council, Inc4 filingsthrough 2026
Susan FrankNational Foreign Trade Council, Inc2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
