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.
Anna-Maria SchneiderVolkswagen Group of America, Inc.71 filingsthrough 2026
CHARLIE W JOHNSON ivAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld36 filingsthrough 2024
Jeff McmillenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld33 filingsthrough 2017
Todd WomackBridge Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Bob Corker & Staff Director, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Acting Chief of Staff/ State Director/ Transition Director, Senator Bob Corker31 filingsthrough 2026
Donald Davidson
The filings
The 20 most recent of 168 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: volkswagen-group-of-america-inc.
$890K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
TRA
65 filings
$15.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
41 filings
$6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
26 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
13 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
12 filings
$360K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
9 filings
$270K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
9 filings
$270K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Banking
BAN
5 filings
$1.2M 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.
H.R. 1848117th CongressLIFT America Act6 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
Covered position: Rep. Kay Granger: Staff Assistant (8/12-2/13), Leg. Correspondent (3/13-2/14), Leg. Assistant (2/14-3/17); Rep. Sam Johnson: Policy Adviser (3/17-3/18), Policy Director (4/18-5/18), Leg. Director (5/18-9/18), Deputy Chief of Staff (10/18-1/19)
27 filingsthrough 2026
Brent WilesBridge Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: State Director, Senator Bob Corker; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Appropriations; Legislative Assistant & Projects Assistant/ Correspondence Director/ Field Representative/ Legislative Correspondent, Senator Lamar Alexander26 filingsthrough 2026
Tim Stuart GehringBridge Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Senior Congressional Affairs Advisor, U.S. Department of States Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons19 filingsthrough 2026
David CarlinAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Asst sec for Cong rels, USDA, 1995-9817 filingsthrough 2014
Stephen KhoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Associate General Counsel, Acting Chief Counsel for China Enforcement, USTR, 1998-2007; Legal Advisor, U.S. Mission to the WTO, 2002-200515 filingsthrough 2024
John GoetzBridge Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide/ Legislative Correspondent/ Special Projects Coordinator/ Constituent Services Representative, Senator Bob Corker15 filingsthrough 2022
Micah JohnsonBridge Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Communications Director, Senator Bob Corker & Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Press Secretary/ Deputy Press Secretary/ Press Assistant/ Constituent Services Representative, Senator Bob Corker14 filingsthrough 2022
Sean D'ArcyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld12 filingsthrough 2014
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld11 filingsthrough 2016
Sarah KirwinAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld10 filingsthrough 2024
Robert LeonardAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld10 filingsthrough 2011
Daniel Martins EhreiserVolkswagen Group of America, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2009
David GeanacopoulosVolkswagen Group of America, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2009
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm8 filingsthrough 2017
LOUIS J BROWN jrVolkswagen Group of America, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2009
Josh TzukerAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: for Rep Matheson, Jan 01-May 036 filingsthrough 2011
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-044 filingsthrough 2023
Joshua TeitelbaumAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 2014-2016; Staff Director, US Senate HELP Subcommittee on Children and Families, 2013-2014; Legislative Assistant, Senator Kay Hagan, 2011-2013; Legislative Counsel, Congressman Steve Israel, 2009-20114 filingsthrough 2023
