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.
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-railroad-construction-and-maintenance-association.
$850K
fees reported
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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.
BUD
36 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
28 filings
$830K 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.
115th Congress
RAILS Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1124113th CongressTIGER Grants for Job Creation Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 721113th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 387113th CongressAmerican Infrastructure Investment Fund Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 411113th CongressShort Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3372118th CongressTo amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a safety data collection program for certain 6-axle vehicles, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 808114th CongressSurface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3782118th CongressShort Line Railroad Relief Act6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 576118th CongressRailway Safety Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 510116th CongressBRACE Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
S. 203116th CongressBRACE Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
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.
28 filingsthrough 2017
Keith HartwellChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Office of Senator Brownback25 filingsthrough 2015
Michael McgonagleTga Association Management Solutions, LLC10 filingsthrough 2024
Matt BellChambers, Conlon & Hartwell, LLC2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 2 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
