United States Travel Association — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
United States Travel Association
District of Columbia
32 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 18, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$2.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.1M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Homeland Security
HOM
31 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
30 filings
$2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1035113th CongressTo require a study of voluntary community-based flood insurance options and how such options could be incorporated into the national flood insurance program, and for other purposes.10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2812113th CongressJustice Exists for All of Us Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
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: united-states-travel-association.
fees reported
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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.
21 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Banking
BAN
5 filings
$500K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$30K 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
Conservation Reform Act of 2013
10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1023113th CongressGlobal Investment in American Jobs Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1035112th CongressMedicaid Coverage for Citizens of Freely Associated States Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2812112th CongressHeat is Power Act8 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2935112th CongressDefending Special Education Students and Families Act8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1023112th CongressHaiti Reforestation Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1354114th CongressPermanently Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2812114th CongressTax Free Health Insurance Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2812111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2935111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 384111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1023111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1035111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
