Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND · 1 client
57 filings
$970K on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM · 3 clients
33 filings
$490K on those filings
Transportation
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Lydia Hofer85 filings5 clients · through 2023
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Athd
Japan
1 filing
through 2009
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 85 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: ms-lydia-hofer.
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 $1.4M in fees and $0 in expenses.
TRA · 2 clients
16 filings
$190K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
12 filings
$120K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN · 1 client
12 filings
$120K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
7 filings
$110K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 2 clients
7 filings
$90K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
6 filings
$80K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
1 filing
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.
