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.
Fees billed to clientsIts own lobbying spend
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
Every client this registrant has billed a fee to represent, by fees reported.
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-rifle-association-of-america.
National Rifle Association of AmericaExpenses basis
69 filings · 2008–2026
$48.3M
reported as expenses · also billed as fees
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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 $520K in fees and $48.3M in expenses.
FIR · 1 client
68 filings
$48.2M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
67 filings
$47.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
23 filings
$14.8M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
6 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Veterans
VET · 1 client
6 filings
$2.9M 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.
David Lehman49 filings1 client · through 2019
Chris W Cox48 filings1 client · through 2019
Susan Recce46 filings1 client · through 2020
Jack Thompson43 filings1 client · through 2024
Gordon M Speed39 filings1 client · through 2026
Benjamin Cassidy32 filings1 client · through 2017
Matthew Schafle31 filings1 client · through 2025
James Holland30 filings1 client · through 2022
Stephen Aaron30 filings1 client · through 2015
Charles H Cunningham30 filings1 client · through 2015
Joshua Savani29 filings1 client · through 2024
Erica Tergeson Rhoad28 filings1 client · through 2022
Alex Large25 filings1 client · through 2025
Christopher Lacey Biles23 filings1 client · through 2016
James Jay Baker20 filings1 client · through 2015
Hadan Hatch19 filings1 client · through 2026
Todd Adkins19 filings1 client · through 2020
Jeffrey Freeman18 filings1 client · through 2013
John Frazer18 filings1 client · through 2013
Wade Callender13 filings1 client · through 2022
James Atkinson13 filings1 client · through 2017
Darren Lasorte13 filings1 client · through 2013
Jason Lawrence11 filings1 client · through 2017
R DAVID FRASH iii11 filings1 client · through 2015
Liz Williams11 filings1 client · through 2011
Covered positions · 2 of 37 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.
