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.
Nfib (National Federation of Independent Business)
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: nfib-national-federation-of-independent-business.
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 $73.2M in expenses.
AUT · 1 client
5 filings
$10M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
5 filings
$10M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
5 filings
$10M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
5 filings
$10M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 1 client
4 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
4 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
4 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Unemployment
UNM · 1 client
3 filings
$7.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
2 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 1 client
1 filing
$2.3M 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.
Jeffrey Brabant
Covered position: Policy Director, House Committee on Small Business
32 filings1 client · through 2025
Donald DannerCovered position: Dept. of Commerce-Chief of Staff31 filings1 client · through 2016
Katherine BonnerCovered position: Rep. Jeb Bradley-Legislative Correspondent31 filings1 client · through 2016
Daniel BoschCovered position: N/A29 filings1 client · through 2017
Matthew Turkstra25 filings1 client · through 2017
Courtney Titus Brooks22 filings1 client · through 2023
Susan EckerlyCovered position: Senate Rep. Policy Comm. Legislative Director22 filings1 client · through 2014
Juanita D. Duggan17 filings1 client · through 2019
Joshua McleodCovered position: Sen. Ron Johnson (2011-2015, Staff Assistant, Leg Correspondent, Leg Assistant); Sen. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee (2015-2021, Prof. Staff Member, Senior Prof. Staff Member); Sen. Ron Johnson (2021-2022, Senior Policy Advisor)15 filings1 client · through 2026
Christopher WaltersCovered position: Rep. Bud Shuster-Staff Assistant13 filings1 client · through 2012
Josselin Nicole Castillo12 filings1 client · through 2025
Stephen KeenCovered position: Office of the House Republican Whip12 filings1 client · through 2017
Daniel MartiniCovered position: Rep. Charles W. Dent (PA-15) - Staff U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary - Law Clerk Rep. Jim Gerlach (PA-06) - Staff Rep. Charles W. Dent (PA-15) - Intern12 filings1 client · through 2017
Christopher Whitcomb12 filings1 client · through 2014
William RysCovered position: Rep. Rick Lazio-Legislative Assistant11 filings1 client · through 2011
Gary PalmquistCovered position: Rep. Dennis Cardoza-Legislative Director11 filings1 client · through 2011
Robert F Graboyes11 filings1 client · through 2011
Adam TempleCovered position: Sen. Jim DeMint, Deputy Communications Director (2005-2007)10 filings1 client · through 2026
Andrea McgeeCovered position: Administrative Director, Senator John Cornyn10 filings1 client · through 2025
Nicholas KarellasCovered position: Sen. Christopher Bond, Rep. Lynn Jenkins10 filings1 client · through 2016
Ashley FingarsonCovered position: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison10 filings1 client · through 2014
Dylan RosnickCovered position: Rep. Brad Finstad (Legislative Assistant Dec 2022 - April 2024)8 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 26 of 40 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.
