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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Government Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 2,253 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.J.Res. 30118th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to "Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights".8 filingsthrough 2024
H.J.Res. 45118th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to "Waivers and Modifications of Federal Student Loans".8 filingsthrough 2024
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Pete SeppNational Taxpayers UnionCovered position: Executive Vice President70 filingsthrough 2026
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-taxpayers-union.
National Taxpayers Union — lobbying record — Receipts Report
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.
GOV
68 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
66 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
63 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
60 filings
$2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
59 filings
$2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
59 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
56 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
49 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
44 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
43 filings
$1.5M 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.
H.R. 1996118th CongressTo provide for a limitation on availability of funds for Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health John E. Fogarty International Center for fiscal year 2024.8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 21118th CongressStrategic Production Response Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2547118th CongressSpecial Diabetes Program for Indians Reauthorization Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2988118th CongressDOE and NASA Interagency Research Coordination Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 345118th CongressTRUST in Congress Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3816118th CongressVeterans’ Entry to Apprenticeship Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act8 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Nan SwiftNational Taxpayers UnionCovered position: Federal Government Affairs Manager30 filingsthrough 2019
Thomas John AielloNational Taxpayers Union25 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew Brice LautzNational Taxpayers Union17 filingsthrough 2023
Nicholas JohnsNational Taxpayers Union11 filingsthrough 2025
Clark PackardNational Taxpayers Union9 filingsthrough 2017
Will YepezNational Taxpayers UnionCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Sen. Dean Heller, 4/18 to 1/19 Staff Assistant, Office of Sen. Dean Heller, 1/18 to 4/187 filingsthrough 2022
Kristina RasmussenNational Taxpayers UnionCovered position: Director of Government Affairs6 filingsthrough 2009
David Coe TimmonsNational Taxpayers UnionCovered position: Office of Sen. Bill Cassidy5 filingsthrough 2026
Alex MillikenNational Taxpayers UnionCovered position: Sen. John McCain, 2017-20185 filingsthrough 2023
Jordan Rebekkah ForbesNational Taxpayers UnionCovered position: Government Affairs Manager5 filingsthrough 2011
David Brandon GreifeNational Taxpayers UnionCovered position: Federal Government Affairs Manager3 filingsthrough 2012
Grant CarlsonNational Taxpayers Union2 filingsthrough 2024
