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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
68 filings
$25.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
53 filings
$24.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Maria Luisa SimpsonCovered position: U.S. Copyright Office: Register of Copyrights (2011-2016); Associate Register and Director of Policy and International Affairs (2008-2010; Deputy General Counsel (2007-2008)48 filings1 client · through 2026
Allan Adler48 filings1 client · through 2020
Thomas H AllenCovered position: US House of Representative24 filings1 client · through 2016
Shelley HusbandCovered position: Staff Director & General Counsel - House Judiciary Committee (Majority); Chief of Staff - Office of Rep. Bob Goodlatte; Legislative Director & Counsel - Office of Rep. Bob Goodlatte21 filings1 client · through 2026
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: association-of-american-publishers.
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 $26.7M in expenses.
TRD · 1 client
50 filings
$14.7M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
41 filings
$20.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
9 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Constitution
CON · 1 client
7 filings
$972K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
6 filings
$855K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
3 filings
$330K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 1 client
1 filing
$110K 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.
Kelly Denson20 filings1 client · through 2024
Matthew Barblan17 filings1 client · through 2022
James C. Maxwell13 filings1 client · through 2026
Sofia Castillo Morales10 filings1 client · through 2019
Patricia L Judd6 filings1 client · through 2009
Eric Bagwell4 filings1 client · through 2026
Terrence Hart4 filings1 client · through 2024
Rachel Fertig3 filings1 client · through 2015
Patricia Scott Schroeder3 filings1 client · through 2008
Carl Maxwell2 filings1 client · through 2023
Covered positions · 3 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.
