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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
61 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
36 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6964119th CongressTo amend the National Security Act of 1947 to include school security as an element of the National Security Strategy, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3924119th CongressWe Can't Wait Act of 20265 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: new-flyer-of-america-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
18 filings
$470K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
14 filings
$495K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$250K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$170K 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.
116th Congress
CARES Act
4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6964118th CongressTo establish limitations on advanced payments for bus rolling stock, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3924118th CongressBus Rolling Stock Modernization Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 660119th CongressBus Rolling Stock Modernization Act of 20251 filingthrough 2025
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.
Auke Mahar-PiersmaCardinal Infrastructure LLCCovered position: Staff Director of Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee 2014-2020 and Deputy Staff Director of Highways and Transit Subcommittee 2020-2023.
13 filingsthrough 2026
Paul SmithNew Flyer of America Inc.12 filingsthrough 2015
Joel AbramanJoel Abraman10 filingsthrough 2017
Wayne Ray JosephNew Flyer of America Inc.1 filingthrough 2015
Paul SoubryNew Flyer of America Inc.1 filingthrough 2013
Kevin WoodNew Flyer of America Inc.1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 1 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
