Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
47 filings
$2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
8 filings
$600K on those filings
Natural Resources
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Richard Gottwald30 filings1 client · through 2026
Michael Tiller30 filings1 client · through 2018
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Linde Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2012
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 58 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: compressed-gas-association-inc.
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 $2.8M in expenses.
NAT · 1 client
3 filings
$280K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
3 filings
$270K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR · 1 client
2 filings
$180K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
1 filing
$90K 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.
