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.
Railroads
RRR · 1 client
37 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
25 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Thomas LynchCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus; Subcommittee Staff Director, Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, Senate Environment and Public Works Cmte; Tax Staff, Senate Finance Cmte; Legislative Director, U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall74 filings1 client · through 2022
Zachary RadfordCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal; Legislative Assistant and Counsel, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal; Legislative Assistant, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Aide, U.S. Sen Jon Tester55 filings1 client · through 2024
Mara Stark-AlcalaCovered position: Communications Staff, U.S. Senate, Environment and Public Works Committee; Communications Staff, U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee27 filings1 client · through 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Client
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association
American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association
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-short-line-and-regional-railroad-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 $6.2M in expenses.
TAX · 1 client
15 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
14 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
8 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
3 filings
$450K 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.
Crystal Gitchell
16 filings1 client · through 2026
Richard ShermanCovered position: consultant15 filings1 client · through 2026
Keith Borman12 filings1 client · through 2011
Stephen M Sullivan12 filings1 client · through 2011
Richard Timmons10 filings1 client · through 2011
Nicole Brewin8 filings1 client · through 2026
Randolph Delay1 filing1 client · through 2021
Edward Mckechnie1 filing1 client · through 2021
Cynthia GuerreroCovered position: consultant1 filing1 client · through 2021
Donald NordenCovered position: consultant1 filing1 client · through 2021
Michael LeggCovered position: consultant1 filing1 client · through 2021
Snjez ArthurCovered position: consultant1 filing1 client · through 2021
Covered positions · 8 of 15 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.
