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-forest-paper-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 $46.4M in expenses.
CAW · 1 client
70 filings
$46.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
69 filings
$45.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
68 filings
$45.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
67 filings
$44.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
64 filings
$42.3M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
60 filings
$40.1M on those filings
Postal
POS · 1 client
58 filings
$37.9M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
56 filings
$37.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
52 filings
$33.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
11 filings
$8.3M 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.
Suzanne Madden27 filings1 client · through 2014
Elizabeth Vandersarl24 filings1 client · through 2021
Laura Marie Farbeann PickardCovered position: LegCorrespondent,Scheduler, Ofc of Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX-15),6/2007-6/200922 filings1 client · through 2023
David RossCovered position: 1/2019-6/2022, Republican Prof Staff, Cmte on House Administration; 1/2019-6/2022, Leg Asst, Ofc of Rep. Rodney Davis; 8/2017-12/2018, Leg Cor, Ofc of Rep. Rodney Davis; 1/2017-7/2017, Staff Asst, Ofc of Rep. Rodney Davis19 filings1 client · through 2026
Rhea Hale18 filings1 client · through 2011
Jerry Schwartz18 filings1 client · through 2011
Elizabeth Olds14 filings1 client · through 2026
James Jeffrey Bradley13 filings1 client · through 2014
William Murray11 filings1 client · through 2010
Michael Phillip BlumeCovered position: Cong. Aide, House Science, Space & Technology Cmte, 5/201510 filings1 client · through 2021
Thomas Struhs8 filings1 client · through 2017
Eric J. SteinerCovered position: Prof Staff, Senate Agriculture Cmte, 2003-07; Assoc Admin, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, 2007-08; Chief of Staff, USDA Food, Nutrition & Consumer Services, 2008-09; Sr Prof Staff, Senate Agriculture Cmte, 2011-127 filings1 client · through 2023
Benjamin BellCovered position: LA,USRep S. Bishop; SrLA, USRep Etheridge7 filings1 client · through 2011
William Imbergamo7 filings1 client · through 2009
Anne Divjak7 filings1 client · through 2009
Brett S Smith7 filings1 client · through 2009
Jacob Handelsman7 filings1 client · through 2009
Clara Cozort6 filings1 client · through 2026
David Koenig6 filings1 client · through 2009
Michael Vincent DefilippisCovered position: Sr Policy Advisor,Rep.Don Young,1/16-12/17; LegAsst,Rep.John Kline,12/15; Staff,Rep.Stephen Fincher,3/15-5/15; LegAsst,Rep.Steve Southerland,4/12-1/15;Staff,Rep.DonYoung,8/11-12/11;LegAsst,Rep.Peter Roskam,9/07-8/08;LegAsst,Rep.RichardPombo,9/03-1/075 filings1 client · through 2018
Timothy G Hunt5 filings1 client · through 2009
Patrick Rita3 filings1 client · through 2008
Christopher Mitton2 filings1 client · through 2015
Brynn Iverson Vollmer2 filings1 client · through 2009
Janet Poling1 filing1 client · through 2011
Covered positions · 8 of 30 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.
