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.
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM · 1 client
68 filings
$30.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
52 filings
$22M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Christopher Steven CylkeCovered position: House Committee on Judiciary, Professional Staff38 filings1 client · through 2026
WILLIAM C MILLER jrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Former Representative Constance Morella (R-MD)30 filings1 client · through 2026
Whitaker L AskewCovered position: Vice President Government Relations27 filings1 client · through 2017
Alexandra CostelloCovered position: Chief of Staff for US Dept of State - Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement; Director of Senate Affairs for US Dept of State; Sr Advisor for Office of Senator William "Mo" Cowan; Political Dir for Office of Senator John F. Kerry
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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-gaming-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 $31.3M in expenses.
FIN · 1 client
48 filings
$20.3M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 1 client
46 filings
$19.5M on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU · 1 client
41 filings
$17.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
27 filings
$12.8M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
18 filings
$9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
18 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
9 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
8 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Animals
ANI · 1 client
7 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND · 1 client
7 filings
$2.8M 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.
26 filings1 client · through 2026
Dorothy R Jackson23 filings1 client · through 2013
FRANK J FAHRENKOPF jr20 filings1 client · through 2013
Eloy MartinezCovered position: Sr. Director of Government Relations19 filings1 client · through 2019
Erica Riordan Jones14 filings1 client · through 2024
Chaka Burgess9 filings1 client · through 2015
D Brett HaleCovered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield8 filings1 client · through 2009
Rashawn MitchellCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-SC)7 filings1 client · through 2021
WALTON M CHALMERS iiCovered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield7 filings1 client · through 2008
Michael Masam Vanaki5 filings1 client · through 2026
John Versaggi4 filings1 client · through 2010
Covered positions · 8 of 14 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.
