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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
68 filings
$91M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
57 filings
$77.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Norma Kaehler45 filings1 client · through 2019
Stephen S NeumanCovered position: Leg. Assist. to Sen. John Rockefeller; and Leg. Assist. to Sen. Jean Carnahan36 filings1 client · through 2026
Nathan J. GattenCovered position: Legislative Correspondent and Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Bennett, Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs31 filings1 client · through 2025
Michael WascomCovered position: Counselor to the Under Secretary, DOT30 filings1 client · through 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: american-airlines-inc.
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 $91M in expenses.
HOM · 1 client
51 filings
$71.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
43 filings
$61.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
15 filings
$17.9M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
12 filings
$14.8M on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
11 filings
$13.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
10 filings
$13.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
10 filings
$12.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
9 filings
$12.7M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
7 filings
$12.3M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT · 1 client
6 filings
$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.
Molly A WilkinsonCovered position: (con) US Dept of Defense (Iraqi Supreme Commission for Iraqi National Conf; Special Projects Coordinator); US Dept of Defense, Ministry of Interior (Chief of Staff & Chief of Admin. Services)
29 filings1 client · through 2025
WILLIAM K RIS jr28 filings1 client · through 2015
Philip NewmanCovered position: Asst Admin, Government and Industry Affairs, FAA; Assoc Admin, Communications and Congressional Affairs, FTA; Legis Asst, Office of Sen Cory Gardner; Dep Chief of Staff/Legis Dir, Office of Rep Mark Meadows; Legis Aide, Office of Rep Cory Gardner26 filings1 client · through 2026
Abigail DonovanCovered position: Leg. Council, Sen. Jon Kyl (2007-2011)22 filings1 client · through 2020
Kevin Fisher22 filings1 client · through 2014
Juan Angel HinojosaCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Quigley; Associate Staff, House Appropriations Committee; Legislative Director, Congressman Bright; Senior Legislative Assistant, Congressman Ellsworth; Research Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Senator Bayh21 filings1 client · through 2026
Joseph A. Hughes21 filings1 client · through 2024
Amy LawrenceCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Steve Womack (AR-3); Press Secretary/Communications Director, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (OK-2); Press Secretary/Communications Director, Sen. Martha McSally (AZ)6 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 12 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.
