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.
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: caterpillar-inc.
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 $67.5M in expenses.
ENG · 1 client
57 filings
$59.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
56 filings
$55.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
52 filings
$52.8M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
46 filings
$46.1M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
38 filings
$42.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
38 filings
$37.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
38 filings
$36.2M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR · 1 client
32 filings
$30M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
29 filings
$31.2M on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
26 filings
$28.5M 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.
Kai K. HirabayashiCovered position: Labor Counsel, Senate HELP Committee26 filings1 client · through 2019
Nathan Smith16 filings1 client · through 2026
Justin GibbonsCovered position: Washington Manager, Govt & Defense Products16 filings1 client · through 2013
Kristopher DenzelCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Robert J. Dold11 filings1 client · through 2024
Dwayne BoltonCovered position: Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) Sr. Legislative Assistant9 filings1 client · through 2015
Joseph William Allen8 filings1 client · through 2015
Margaret CaravelliCovered position: Counsel, US House Committee on Energy & Commerce; Chief Counsel, US House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology; and Senior Clean Air Act Counsel, US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.7 filings1 client · through 2026
Kathryn S HimesCovered position: Washington Manager, Govt Affairs7 filings1 client · through 2010
Terry GoffCovered position: Director, Emission Regulations & Conformance6 filings1 client · through 2008
Christine Gomes5 filings1 client · through 2026
Benjamin Shane CordaniCovered position: Washington Manager, Govt Affairs5 filings1 client · through 2011
Robert C ThompsonCovered position: Global Director, Govt Affairs4 filings1 client · through 2012
Richard BrentCovered position: Director, Sorlar Turbines, Inc., Govt Affairs3 filings1 client · through 2009
Jack Gehring1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 14 of 18 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.
