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.
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: ryder-system-inc.
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
13 filings
$70K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
6 filings
$10K on those filings
Retirement
RET
4 filings
$360K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$10K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
1 filing
$10K 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.
4 filings
through 2010
S. 1408111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1863112th CongressNew Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2024111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5381111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1582111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3353115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1655115th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4441114th CongressAviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Jonathan TalismanRyder System, IncCovered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy3 filingsthrough 2008
Richard GrafmeyerRyder System, IncCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, JCT3 filingsthrough 2008
William MckenneyRyder System, IncCovered position: Staff Director, Ways & Means Over Sub3 filingsthrough 2008
