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
35 filings
$827K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$397K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 304112th CongressTo amend the limitation on liability for certain passenger rail accidents or incidents under section 28103 of title 49, United States Code, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 6150111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3982111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Benjamin GoldeenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jim Costa LD, LA; Rep. Dennis Cardoza LA15 filingsthrough 2024
Lauri Anne HettingerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA & Staff Director, Sen. George Voinovich; LA, Sen. Norm Coleman; LA & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Strom Thurmond13 filingsthrough 2024
Daniel MaldonadoHolland & Knight LLP10 filingsthrough 2015
Jeffrey F BootheHolland & Knight LLP9 filingsthrough 2015
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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: north-county-transit-district.
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.
11 filings
$200K 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.
How these are found ·
Eric ThronsonTownsend Public Affairs
8 filingsthrough 2023
Eve Maldonado-O'TooleHolland & Knight LLP7 filingsthrough 2025
Rj LyerlyCarpi & Clay, Inc6 filingsthrough 2011
David WetmoreCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: LA-Sen Pete Wilson, Snr LA-Sen John Seymour6 filingsthrough 2011
Joe O'BrienManatt, Phelps, and PhillipsCovered position: Intern, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Intern, Rep. Scott Peters; Intern, Rep. Linda Sanchez5 filingsthrough 2026
Leslie PollnerHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Suzanne Kosmas; Chief of Staff, Rep. Tim Mahoney5 filingsthrough 2025
Richard Allen HarmonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Director5 filingsthrough 2021
Joe O'BrienHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Intern, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Intern, Rep. Scott Peters; Intern, Rep. Linda Sanchez3 filingsthrough 2025
Leslie PollnerManatt, Phelps, and PhillipsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Suzanne Kosmas; Chief of Staff, Rep. Tim Mahoney3 filingsthrough 2025
Eve Maldonado-O'TooleManatt, Phelps, and Phillips3 filingsthrough 2025
Richard M GoldHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Sp. Asst. for Env. Affrs., Sen. Lloyd Bentsen ; ; Sp. Asst. to EPA Administrator Carol Browner1 filingthrough 2013
