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: transportation-trades-department-afl-cio.
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
68 filings
$18M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
68 filings
$18M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
68 filings
$18M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
68 filings
$18M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
68 filings
$18M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
66 filings
$17.6M on those filings
Postal
POS
50 filings
$14.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
21 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$860K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$320K 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.
115th Congress
National Right-to-Work Act
10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 904115th CongressBuy American Improvement Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 939115th CongressBuy America for Drinking Water Extension Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 986115th CongressTribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
S. 702115th CongressPLUS Act10 filingsthrough 2018
S. 880115th CongressMade in America Water Infrastructure Act10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1316116th CongressFederal Labor-Management Partnership Act of 20199 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.
Andrea WohleberTransportation Trades Department, AFL-CIOCovered position: Rep Sutton: SA, LC, LA; House Committee on T&I, Peter DeFazio: Professional Staff Member, Senior Professional Staff Member; FRA: Senior Advisor20 filingsthrough 2026
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst., Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst., Rep. Eckart; Admin., Asst., House Majority Leader; and, Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader2 filingsthrough 2016
