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: abb-inc.
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.
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 $5.6M in expenses.
TRA · 1 client
34 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
26 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
24 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
19 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
12 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
10 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
9 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
7 filings
$560K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
6 filings
$840K 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.
16 filings
1 client · through 2014
Brian Thomas KnappCovered position: Legislative Aide, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2006-2008)9 filings1 client · through 2026
Kirk Anderson5 filings1 client · through 2026
Christine Ramsdell5 filings1 client · through 2026
Kapil SharmaCovered position: Senior Director, Government Relations5 filings1 client · through 2023
John A. HaysbertCovered position: Vice President, Government & Institutional Relations3 filings1 client · through 2020
Covered positions · 7 of 9 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.
Switzerland
4 filings
through 2026
ABB,LTD
Switzerland
1 filing
through 2020
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
