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-public-transportation-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 $28.8M in expenses.
BUD · 1 client
68 filings
$28.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
58 filings
$24.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
37 filings
$15.5M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
20 filings
$8.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
11 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
10 filings
$4M 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.
Michael Fimmano24 filings1 client · through 2019
Melissa Mejias Newton15 filings1 client · through 2025
Joni M Zielinski CarltonCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Saxton15 filings1 client · through 2014
Katie Mabry14 filings1 client · through 2026
Patricia DoerschCovered position: Counsel, House Transportation & Infrastructure Co13 filings1 client · through 2014
Taneesha Johnson12 filings1 client · through 2026
Christian RichardsCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. James Langevin12 filings1 client · through 2014
Benjamin Schwartz11 filings1 client · through 2026
Nicole Christus11 filings1 client · through 2021
Paul J Dean11 filings1 client · through 2011
WASHINGTON HOMER CARLISLE iv11 filings1 client · through 2011
Jillian Kinder10 filings1 client · through 2026
Mara Stark-Alcala9 filings1 client · through 2018
Andrew Siman Brady8 filings1 client · through 2017
Zachary Rosen7 filings1 client · through 2021
Eric Bustos6 filings1 client · through 2023
Gayle Lake6 filings1 client · through 2009
Channon Clements Hanna5 filings1 client · through 2016
Meredith Slesinger5 filings1 client · through 2011
Thomas Yedinak4 filings1 client · through 2008
Jared Peter Bonina3 filings1 client · through 2023
Arthur Louis Guzzetti1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 28 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.
