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.
James KolbSummit Strategies Government Affairs LLCCovered position: Staff Director for the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee from 2007 - 2014. Director of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation - 1998-2001.56 filingsthrough 2026
Rebecca AndersonAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: White House Office of Legislative Affairs51 filingsthrough 2026
Michael BeerAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: LA, Rep. Dave Hobson51 filingsthrough 2026
Bert CarpAlignment Government Strategies
The filings
The 20 most recent of 136 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: norfolk-southern.
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.
34 filings
$560K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$210K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$20K 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
Safe Freight Act of 2019
7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 612113th CongressSafe and Efficient Transportation Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
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.
51 filingsthrough 2026
Leo C JardotAlignment Government Strategies51 filingsthrough 2026
Jenny DijamesAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: LA and LD, Rep. Bud Cramer51 filingsthrough 2026
Linda Hall DaschleLhd & Associates, Inc.Covered position: FAA Acting/Deputy Administrator37 filingsthrough 2018
David RuddAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Fritz Hollings35 filingsthrough 2026
Tracy D TaylorAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Sch. C at Agency for International Development31 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick PetteyAlignment Government StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Bob Smith22 filingsthrough 2019
Alexander AngelsonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, Office of Legislative Affairs, Executive Office of the President7 filingsthrough 2026
Michael SmullenAlignment Government Strategies2 filingsthrough 2026
Mike SmullenAlignment Government Strategies1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 9 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
