114 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 8, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$761K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$236K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$525K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: texas-association-of-business.
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
12 filings
$115K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
6 filings
$20K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$65K on those filings
Banking
BAN
5 filings
$35K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$35K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$15K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
1 filing
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
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.
S. 3548116th CongressCARES Act1 filingthrough 2020
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.
Nelson SalinasTexas Association of Business17 filingsthrough 2015
Glenn HamerTexas Association of Business16 filingsthrough 2024
William Christopher LamondThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Aide, Senate Govt Affairs Comm; LA, Sen. Thompson16 filingsthrough 2020
Kandice SanaieTexas Association of BusinessCovered position: Governmental Affairs Manager16 filingsthrough 2013
Amanda Montagne MartinTexas Association of Business15 filingsthrough 2017
Jeffrey MoseleyTexas Association of Business14 filingsthrough 2020
Charles B. ThomasThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst, Legislative Asst, Legislative Aide, Staff Asst; Rep. Robert Pittenger14 filingsthrough 2020
Chris WallaceTexas Association of Business13 filingsthrough 2018
Spencer SalleeTexas Association of Business5 filingsthrough 2024
Andres AlcantarTexas Association of Business5 filingsthrough 2019
James HinesTexas Association of Business5 filingsthrough 2019
Mary MiksaTexas Association of Business5 filingsthrough 2008
Matthew SalmonMjs Advisors LLC4 filingsthrough 2023
Stuart ChapmanThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Carolyn McCarthy; Chief of Staff, Representative Zack Space; Press Secretary, Senator Jay Rockefeller; Press Secretary, Representative Barbara Lee3 filingsthrough 2020
Miranda GoodshellerTexas Association of Business3 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 7 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
