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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
68 filings
$6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
68 filings
$6M on those filings
Telecommunications
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this firm's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Alcee L. HastingsD-Florida-AL
Bills: H.R. 535, H.R. 542, H.R. 604
4 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this firm's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Kevin L Maher57 filings1 client · through 2026
Gavin Baker44 filings1 client · through 2026
Emily Sheketoff42 filings1 client · through 2017
Jessica Mcgilvray41 filings1 client · through 2017
Alan Inouye37 filings1 client · through 2025
Lynne Bradley28 filings1 client · through 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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-library-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 $6M in expenses.
TEC · 1 client
68 filings
$6M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
65 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
65 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 1 client
48 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
22 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
11 filings
$570K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
6 filings
$622K on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
4 filings
$181K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
3 filings
$194K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN · 1 client
1 filing
$55K 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.
Kathi Kromer25 filings1 client · through 2022
Jeffrey P Kratz23 filings1 client · through 2014
Adam M Eisgrau20 filings1 client · through 2017
Carrie Russell17 filings1 client · through 2021
Corey D Williams Green16 filings1 client · through 2013
Ted Wegner9 filings1 client · through 2014
Marijke Ann Visser8 filings1 client · through 2021
