Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Transportation Research Center
Ohio
6 filings from 1 registrant · 2025–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$170K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$170K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$170K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 8870 119th CongressBUILD America 250 Act1 filingthrough 2026
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Israel S Klein KLEIN/JOHNSON GroupCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Joint Economic Committee, Chairman Chuck Schumer; Senior Communications Advisor, Rep. Ed Markey; Communications Director, Sen. Chuck Schumer; Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant, Rep. Ed Markey.7 filingsthrough 2026
- Matthew Lee Johnson KLEIN/JOHNSON GroupCovered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn; Senate Judiciary Committee7 filingsthrough 2026
- Ian Rayder KLEIN/JOHNSON GroupCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz7 filingsthrough 2026
- Kate Lynch KLEIN/JOHNSON Group
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: transportation-research-center.