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.
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: schaeffler-group-usa-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.
MAN
11 filings
$460K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
6 filings
$290K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$80K 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.
118th Congress
Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing Production Tax Credit Act of 2023
2 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4680118th CongressSecretary General Jens Stoltenberg Congressional Gold Medal Act2 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 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.
Michael WeberSchaeffler Group USA, Inc.Covered position: Head of Government Relations Americas
Sarah T. MillsFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, office of the Ranking member, Legislative Aide to Senator Grassley, Sessions, and Specter; US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Senator Flake, Special Legislative Aide2 filingsthrough 2019
Joseph RillottaFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Department of Treasury, 07/2014-04/2016 (Office of IRS Chief Counsel); Department of Justice, 01/2008-06/2013 (Tax Division); Rep. Thomas Petri, 06/1999-08/2000 (Legislative Assistant)1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 5 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
