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.
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
10 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI · 1 client
10 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Douglass CalidasCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Deputy Legislative Director, and Senior Economic Adviser, Senator Amy Klobuchar; Chief Counsel, and Legislative Counsel, Senator Joe Manchin; Investigator, and Legislative Fellow, Senate Finance Committee11 filings1 client · through 2026
Mitchell KominskyCovered position: Counsel, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (Jan 2009 - April 2014), Policy Counsel; Senate Republican Policy Committee (April 2014 - July 2016); Associate Director for Strategic initiative, Technology Policy, USDOT June 2019 - Jan 20216 filings1 client · through 2026
Satya ThallamCovered position: Senior Counselor, White House Office of Management and Budget; Chief Economist, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs6 filings1 client · through 2025
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: americans-for-responsible-innovation.
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 $3.3M in expenses.
BUD · 1 client
8 filings
$3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
5 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 1 client
5 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
3 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
3 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
2 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
1 filing
$330K 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.
Scott WeathersCovered position: Energy and Environment Policy Advisor, Rep. Diana DeGette (July 2024-February 2025), Legislative Assistant; Rep. Julia Brownley (June 2023-July 2024); Legislative Fellow, Rep. Matthew Cartwright (February 2023-June 2024)
5 filings1 client · through 2026
Annika Olson4 filings1 client · through 2026
Sarah KesselCovered position: Professional Staff Member - Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources3 filings1 client · through 2026
Evan Sarnor3 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 7 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.
