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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
26 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT · 1 client
22 filings
$5M on those filings
Manufacturing
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Jennifer SafavianCovered position: House Ways & Means Comm. - Staff Dir., General Counsel (2012-2014); General Counsel, Oversight & Investigations Subcomm. Staff Director (2011-2012); House Comm. on Gov. Reform & Oversight - Chief Counsel for Oversight & Investigations (2003-2011)29 filings1 client · through 2026
Rory HeslingtonCovered position: International Trade Policy Advisor-Senate Committee on Finance (1/15-2/21)24 filings1 client · through 2026
Peter ComstockCovered position: Dep. COS, Rep. French Hill; Leg Director, Rep. French Hill; COS, Rep. Tim Griffin; Leg Director, Rep. Tim Griffin; Sr Leg Asst, Rep. Tim Griffin; Leg Asst, Rep. Tim Griffin; Leg Correspondent, Sen. Lisa Murkowski13 filings1 client · through 2026
Colton Hotary
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 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: autos-drive-america.
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 $5.2M in expenses.
MAN · 1 client
20 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
20 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
2 filings
$790K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
1 filing
$60K 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.
9 filings1 client · through 2023
Paul David RyanCovered position: N/A6 filings1 client · through 2021
Lila Nieves-LeeCovered position: Leg. Asst. - Sen. T. Scott; Dir. Cong. Affairs - USTR; Leg. Asst. - House Comm. Ways and Means; Staff Assoc. House Comm. For. Affairs6 filings1 client · through 2021
Damon Shelby PorterCovered position: N/A2 filings1 client · through 2020
Edward Stewart1 filing1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 8 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.
