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: toy-association-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.
TRD
53 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
24 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
19 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
17 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
17 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
15 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
9 filings
$729K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$647K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$322K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$113K 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.
113th Congress
Made In America Manufacturing Act of 2013
9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3429117th CongressSHOP SAFE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1843117th CongressSHOP SAFE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1452116th CongressImport Tax Relief Act of 20198 filingsthrough 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.
Owen CaineThe Toy Association, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2024
Jennifer GibbonsThe Toy Association, Inc.11 filingsthrough 2024
Edward M DesmondThe Toy Association, Inc.Covered position: Henry Hyde10 filingsthrough 2012
Andrew Robert HackmanThe Toy Association, Inc.Covered position: Vice President of Government Affairs5 filingsthrough 2013
Maria SierraThe Toy Association, Inc.Covered position: VP Government Affairs3 filingsthrough 2026
Kathrin BelliveauThe Toy Association, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
