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: southwest-airlines-pilots-association.
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.
HOM
18 filings
$600K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
16 filings
$390K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$330K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$110K 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.
112th Congress
FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act
13 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2150115th CongressFlags of Convenience Don't Fly Here Act12 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1608114th CongressConsumer Drone Safety Act12 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1051114th CongressTo direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) port of entry, and for other purposes.11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2050114th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 879114th CongressAx the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3116113th CongressMODDERN Cures Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 658113th CongressTo authorize and request the President to award the congressional Medal of Honor to Arthur Jibilian for actions behind enemy lines during World War II while a member of the United States Navy and the Office of Strategic Services.10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1546113th CongressProtecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 223113th CongressVisa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and Reform Act10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3263113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 911115th CongressSaracini Aviation Safety Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Kevin HenrySouthwest Airlines Pilots' Association
21 filingsthrough 2013
Paul James JacksonSouthwest Airlines Pilots' Association12 filingsthrough 2015
James P KeeseJames P. Keese12 filingsthrough 2011
Stephen BorgThe Keelen Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff - Representative Timothy V. Johnson10 filingsthrough 2015
Joe HansonSouthwest Airlines Pilots' Association10 filingsthrough 2013
Harry Morgan FreemanSouthwest Airlines Pilots' Association9 filingsthrough 2013
Mark RichardsonSouthwest Airlines Pilots' Association8 filingsthrough 2014
Matthew B KeelenThe Keelen Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2015
John PepperSouthwest Airlines Pilots' Association4 filingsthrough 2015
Matthew KeelenSouthwest Airlines Pilots' Association2 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 3 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
