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.
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
69 filings
$19.2M on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
69 filings
$19.2M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Diann HowlandCovered position: Pension Policy Director for the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Pension Policy Advisor of the Senate Finance Committee79 filings1 client · through 2026
Lynn Diehl Dudley79 filings1 client · through 2026
Jill Randolph76 filings1 client · through 2025
James Klein72 filings2 clients · through 2025
Janet Jacobson57 filings1 client · through 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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-benefits-council.
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 $19.2M in expenses.
money on filings that named this issue
Kathryn Wilber
49 filings2 clients · through 2019
Ilyse SchumanCovered position: Senate HELP Committee, Chief Labor Counsel, Minority Staff Director39 filings1 client · through 2026
Kathryn JohnsonCovered position: Attorney advisor, Office of Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Department of Treasury; attorney, Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service32 filings1 client · through 2026
Kathryn SpanglerCovered position: Dep. Health Policy Director, Senate HELP cmtte20 filings2 clients · through 2017
Paul Dennett16 filings1 client · through 2013
Kenneth W Porter3 filings1 client · through 2010
Matthew MumaCovered position: Legislation Counsel with the Joint Committee on Taxation; Attorney-Adviser with the Department of the Treasury2 filings1 client · through 2026
Kerri WillisCovered position: Senior Counsel, Health Policy2 filings1 client · through 2025
Covered positions · 6 of 13 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.
