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: national-restaurant-association.
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 $51.6M in expenses.
IMM · 1 client
68 filings
$51.6M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
67 filings
$50.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
54 filings
$39.9M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 1 client
50 filings
$37.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
43 filings
$32.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
43 filings
$31.6M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
39 filings
$29.5M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 1 client
39 filings
$29.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
39 filings
$29.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
28 filings
$22.1M 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.
35 filings1 client · through 2026
Michelle Reinke25 filings1 client · through 2015
Shannon MeadeCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Granger; Legislative Counsel, Rep. Porter.24 filings1 client · through 2021
Sean D. KennedyCovered position: Special Asst., Legis. Affairs, President Obama; Chief of Staff, Sen. McCaskill, Legis. Director, Rep. Gephardt23 filings1 client · through 2026
Brennan Robert Duckett22 filings1 client · through 2026
Angelo Amador22 filings1 client · through 2016
David Koenig20 filings1 client · through 2015
Laura Knapp ChadwickCovered position: Sched., Exec. Asst, Rep. Schiff (CA-29) 03-0419 filings1 client · through 2018
Joan Mcglockton18 filings1 client · through 2016
John Scott DefifeCovered position: House Sr Policy Advisor Min Whip/Maj Ldr, LD18 filings1 client · through 2015
Brendan Flanagan16 filings1 client · through 2012
Jordan HeiliczerCovered position: Intern, Reps. Elijah Cummings and John Delaney15 filings1 client · through 2026
Cicely SimpsonCovered position: Rep. Jim Cooper, Legislative Director (2005-2008), Rep. Lincoln Davis, Scheduler/Campaign Manager (2002-2004)14 filings1 client · through 2018
Mervyn JonesCovered position: Rep. Tim Ryan, spec. asst. Aug-Dec 124 filings1 client · through 2015
Covered positions · 19 of 38 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.
