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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: aarp.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $237.9M in expenses.
TAX · 1 client
68 filings
$233.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
68 filings
$233.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
67 filings
$226.6M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 1 client
67 filings
$226.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
67 filings
$226.6M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA · 1 client
67 filings
$226.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
66 filings
$220.1M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM · 1 client
61 filings
$195.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
60 filings
$188.3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
58 filings
$205.8M 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 money 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.
71 filings1 client · through 2024
Dawit Kahsai67 filings1 client · through 2025
Beverly Gilyard63 filings1 client · through 2026
Blake Kelly63 filings1 client · through 2026
Cristina Martin Firvida63 filings1 client · through 2022
JOHN SUMNER CUMMINGS jrCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff56 filings1 client · through 2026
John Hishta51 filings1 client · through 2026
Thomas M NichollsCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski, November 2003-February 2009 Legislative Correspondent, Congressman Eliot Engel, May 2003-November 200344 filings1 client · through 2025
Shannon M Russell43 filings1 client · through 2021
Megan O'ReillyCovered position: CMS, Office of Legislation, Director, 1/2015-1/2017; Committee on Education & the Workforce, Staff Director and various other positions, 1/2007-1/2015; Executive Assistant, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, 8/1998-8/200342 filings1 client · through 2026
Brendan K RoseCovered position: Assistant Director, DC Health Benefits Exchange Auth., 1/2013-10/2017;Health Policy Analyst, DC Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking, 1/2011-1/2013; Leg. Director, Rep. Kagen, 8/2010-1/2011; Leg. Assistant, Rep. Obey 11/2005-8/201042 filings1 client · through 2026
Deborah Chalfie40 filings1 client · through 2019
WINIFRED VERONICA QUINN phd39 filings1 client · through 2018
Kevin Donnellan38 filings1 client · through 2019
Michele Lesley VarnhagenCovered position: Labor Policy Dir. US House Committee on Education35 filings1 client · through 2021
Joyce A Rogers32 filings1 client · through 2019
Fernando RuizCovered position: U.S. House of Representatives - Legislative Correspondent for {Congressman Ruben Hinojosa} U.S. House of Representatives - Legislative Assistant for {Congressman Adam Smith}31 filings1 client · through 2026
William SweeneyCovered position: Director of IT, Senator Stabenow Director of Outreach/Speechwriter, Senator Stabenow Senior Communications Adviser, Senator Stabenow Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Stabenow Chief of Staff, Senator Stabenow Staff Director, DPCC30 filings1 client · through 2026
Peter JeffriesCovered position: Dir. of Communications, Ofc. of US House Speaker30 filings1 client · through 2019
Mary Wallace30 filings1 client · through 2016
Larry White30 filings1 client · through 2015
Marther Thomas Doneghy27 filings1 client · through 2014
Mary Cheryl Matheis25 filings1 client · through 2014
Covered positions · 31 of 118 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
