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-railroads.
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.
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 $103.9M in expenses.
HOM · 1 client
61 filings
$89M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
56 filings
$89M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
55 filings
$78.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
29 filings
$43.5M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
28 filings
$36.5M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
16 filings
$18.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
16 filings
$18.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
15 filings
$20.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
12 filings
$19.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
8 filings
$10.8M 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.
31 filings
1 client · through 2016
Melissa Connolly19 filings1 client · through 2026
Dwayne Bolton19 filings1 client · through 2013
Jordan Stone18 filings1 client · through 2023
Patrick Marshall17 filings1 client · through 2025
Elgeo Harris16 filings1 client · through 2020
Devon Lidz15 filings1 client · through 2026
HARRISON WADSWORTH ivCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings 2008-201012 filings1 client · through 2016
Hubert O'Bannon11 filings1 client · through 2011
Laurie Knight8 filings1 client · through 2013
John Holt Edwards7 filings1 client · through 2025
Andrew Siman Brady7 filings1 client · through 2019
Jermaine Turner6 filings1 client · through 2026
Hannah Matesic5 filings1 client · through 2026
Bret Manley2 filings1 client · through 2017
Covered positions · 2 of 20 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.
Canada
24 filings
through 2025
Canadian National
Canada
23 filings
through 2025
Cn
Canada
4 filings
through 2010
Canadian Nation
Canada
2 filings
through 2020
Canadian National Railway Company
Canada
1 filing
through 2008
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
