Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
Bmo Bank N.A. (Fka Bmo Harris Bank N.A.)
Illinois
42 filings · 1 client · 4 lobbyists registered · 2016–2026 · latest filed Jul 17, 2026
Fees billed to clients
$0
never billed a fee — files for itself
Its own lobbying spend
$8.3M
filed on its own behalf
Clients represented
1
4 lobbyists registered
Note · At least one filing discloses a foreign entity with an interest in a client this registrant represents. Those disclosures are listed below.
Reported spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Banking
BAN · 1 client
42 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
14 filings
$2.8M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
- Ashley EllefritzCovered position: Scheduler, Sen. Mike DeWine, 2004-2005; Cloakroom Assistant, Floor Assistant, Assistant Secretary for the Minority in the Cloakroom, Senate Republican Cloakroom, 2005-2012.40 filings1 client · through 2026
- Mary Kenney29 filings1 client · through 2022
- Laura SwansonCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Comm on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (2019-2025); Deputy Staff Director, Senate Comm on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (2013-2019), Policy Director, Senate Comm on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (2011-2015).5 filings1 client · through 2026
- Kathleen PalmerCovered position: Financial Institutions Subcommittee, House Financial Services Committee: Staff Direct, (Jan 2025-Aug 2025), Sr Prof Staff (Jan 2023-Jan 2025), Prof Staff, (Jul 2019-Jan 2023). Rep. Stephen Fincher: Various Roles (Apr. 2014 - Sept. 2016).
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Bank of Montreal
Canada
1 filing
through 2016
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.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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: bmo-bank-n-a-fka-bmo-harris-bank-n-a.