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: american-dental-association.
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 $39.4M in expenses.
TAX · 1 client
67 filings
$38.8M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
66 filings
$38.6M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB · 1 client
63 filings
$37.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
56 filings
$33.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
53 filings
$31M on those filings
Small Business
SMB · 1 client
52 filings
$30.3M on those filings
Veterans
VET · 1 client
51 filings
$29.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
50 filings
$29.2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
47 filings
$26.8M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND · 1 client
47 filings
$26.5M 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.
Natalie HalesCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard Hudson Legislative Correspondent and Staff Assistant, Rep. Marlin Stutzman36 filings1 client · through 2026
Christopher Tampio33 filings1 client · through 2024
Megan Mortimer29 filings1 client · through 2024
Mindi WalkerCovered position: Sen. Prof Staff, US House Gov't Reform Subcomm28 filings1 client · through 2017
David LinnCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Allyson Schwartz27 filings1 client · through 2026
Judith C Sherman26 filings1 client · through 2014
Roxanne Yaghoubi20 filings1 client · through 2023
Mary DietrichCovered position: Staff, Senate Appropriations Committee17 filings1 client · through 2016
Corey Austin Mcgee16 filings1 client · through 2024
Margo KlostermanCovered position: Congressman John Boehner (Legislative Assistant); Congressman Stephen A. Womack (Legislative Director)14 filings1 client · through 2017
THOMAS JAMES DAWSON iiiCovered position: Pension Law Specialist, DOL/EBSA10 filings1 client · through 2014
William Prentice9 filings1 client · through 2010
James Schulz8 filings1 client · through 2026
Brian Sodergren7 filings1 client · through 2012
Michael Brzica7 filings1 client · through 2012
Nicholas CargasCovered position: Rep. David Scott (09/2019-02/2025) Deputy Chief of Staff Legislative Assistant Legislative Correspondent Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent Staff Assistant Intern6 filings1 client · through 2026
James Patrick PaluskiewiczCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep Norwood6 filings1 client · through 2009
Matthew Rossetto4 filings1 client · through 2026
Chad Olson3 filings1 client · through 2026
Robert Hugh Mitton3 filings1 client · through 2020
Jeffrey Wood1 filing1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 8 of 27 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.
