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.
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees
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-federation-of-state-county-and-municipal-employees.
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 $42M in expenses.
LBR · 1 client
67 filings
$41.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
67 filings
$41.3M on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
66 filings
$40.7M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
64 filings
$39.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
59 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
59 filings
$36.3M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
58 filings
$36M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 1 client
52 filings
$32.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
51 filings
$31.8M on those filings
Housing
HOU · 1 client
51 filings
$30.7M 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.
Frances Bernstein36 filings1 client · through 2016
Karl U Stark34 filings1 client · through 2021
Scott L FreyCovered position: Deputy Commissioner- Legislation & Congressional Affairs-SSA32 filings1 client · through 2020
Katie L SmithCovered position: Deputy Scheduler for Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Legislative Aide for Sen. Michael Bennet26 filings1 client · through 2021
Charles M Loveless24 filings1 client · through 2014
Getsemani YanezCovered position: Interim Staff Assistant for Rep. Solomon Ortiz (TX); Staff Assistant/Legislative Aide for Rep. Ed Pastor (AZ)23 filings1 client · through 2020
Nanine Meiklejohn23 filings1 client · through 2014
Cynthia Pauletta Bradley19 filings1 client · through 2013
Catherine Finnerty18 filings1 client · through 2026
Laura MacdonaldCovered position: Staff Asst, Legis Correspondent & Legis Asst-Rep Brad Sherman (CA), Legis Asst-Rep Hilda Solis (CA), Special Asst-DOL, Office of Sec., CoS & Sr Legis Officer-DOL Office of Cong & Intergov. Affairs, Senior Advisor-DOL Office of the Secretary17 filings1 client · through 2026
Christopher Douglas BrownCovered position: Staff Assistant for Rep. Mark DeSaulnier16 filings1 client · through 2026
Desiree Hoffman14 filings1 client · through 2026
Marta DavidCovered position: Rep Gephardt 1997-2002; Rep Hoyer 2002-201014 filings1 client · through 2014
Holly BiglowCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charles Rangel (NY)11 filings1 client · through 2021
Bailey ChildersCovered position: paid intern, Senate Small Business Committee, 20029 filings1 client · through 2022
Andrea Zuniga Dibitetto9 filings1 client · through 2010
Jill ButlerCovered position: Congressional Relations Specialist at Social Security Administration Office of Legislation Investigative Counsel, Committee on Homeland Security, US House of Representatives6 filings1 client · through 2016
Elizabeth Schoff WatsonCovered position: Assistant Secretary, Department of Labor Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs; Labor Policy Director and Chief Labor Counsel, House Education and Workforce Committee Democratic Staff5 filings1 client · through 2026
Gary GorskiCovered position: Sen. Claire McCaskill, Legislative Assistant; Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Senior Policy Advisor5 filings1 client · through 2019
Gerald W Mcentee5 filings1 client · through 2010
Alexandra TownsendCovered position: n/a4 filings1 client · through 2022
Victoria Goncalves2 filings1 client · through 2022
Jamie Pascal2 filings1 client · through 2022
Matthew Stark Blumin2 filings1 client · through 2016
Jessica RobinsonCovered position: Staff Asst, House Comm on Govt Reform/Oversight2 filings1 client · through 2010
Covered positions · 14 of 31 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.
