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.
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 1 client
68 filings
$26.7M 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.
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-civil-liberties-union.
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 $26.7M in expenses.
Georgeanne Usova46 filings1 client · through 2022
Jesselyn MccurdyCovered position: Counsel, House Comm. Judiciary, Subcomm. Crime, Terrorism & Homeland Security43 filings1 client · through 2020
Joanne Lin38 filings1 client · through 2017
Michael W Macleod-Ball38 filings1 client · through 2017
Christopher Rickerd35 filings1 client · through 2019
Kanya BennettCovered position: Counsel, House Judiciary Committee28 filings1 client · through 2020
Michael Garvey28 filings1 client · through 2020
Deborah Jeanne Vagins28 filings1 client · through 2015
Tyler Ray27 filings1 client · through 2017
Neema GulianiCovered position: Counsel, House Oversight and Govt. Reform Committee; Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security26 filings1 client · through 2018
Rachel Marshall22 filings1 client · through 2016
Michael German22 filings1 client · through 2014
Michelle Richardson22 filings1 client · through 2014
Laura W Murphy20 filings1 client · through 2015
Gabriel Rottman17 filings1 client · through 2015
Christopher Calabrese17 filings1 client · through 2014
Nathaniel J Turner15 filings1 client · through 2017
Dena Sher15 filings1 client · through 2015
Naureen Shah14 filings1 client · through 2026
Tara Palmer StutsmanCovered position: Legislative Aide, Senator Jeff Merkley; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jeff Merkley14 filings1 client · through 2026
Madhuri Grewal14 filings1 client · through 2021
Madison Roberts13 filings1 client · through 2026
Keyarmin HamadanchyCovered position: Counsel, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Sen. Tom Harkin); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Sherrod Brown; Oversight Counsel, House Committee on Education and Labor (Rep. Bobby Scott).13 filings1 client · through 2026
Kathleen RuaneCovered position: Legislative Attorney, Congressional Research Service13 filings1 client · through 2021
Alex Berger13 filings1 client · through 2015
Carla Ruth Epstein13 filings1 client · through 2015
Covered positions · 12 of 66 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.
