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: plastics-industry-association-inc.
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 $4.2M in expenses.
TRD · 1 client
66 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
60 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
56 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
48 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
30 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
29 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Railroads
RRR · 1 client
20 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
12 filings
$780K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
11 filings
$660K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
6 filings
$265K 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.
30 filings
1 client · through 2016
Matthew Seaholm24 filings1 client · through 2025
Michael Taylor24 filings1 client · through 2016
John Scott DefifeCovered position: House Sr Policy Advisor Min Whip/Maj Ldr, LD12 filings1 client · through 2019
Robert F. HelminiakCovered position: Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute11 filings1 client · through 2016
Pearce Crosland9 filings1 client · through 2025
Anthony Radoszewski9 filings1 client · through 2021
Neil PrattCovered position: Sr. Director, International Trade & Trade Counsel9 filings1 client · through 2010
Chris Rager6 filings1 client · through 2026
Jason Eberstein4 filings1 client · through 2024
Christopher BrownCovered position: Senior Director, Federal Government Affairs4 filings1 client · through 2008
Mark Andrew O'ConnellCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Saxton (NJ-03) 1999-2003; Deputy Associate Administrator, Congressional Affairs, US EPA 2008-20093 filings1 client · through 2023
Jerrod ConawayCovered position: Manager, Federal and State Government Affairs3 filings1 client · through 2010
Reed Westcott2 filings1 client · through 2026
Catherine RandazzoCovered position: Executive Vice President and COO1 filing1 client · through 2008
Amy E ShermanCovered position: Director of International Trade and Trade Statistics1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 11 of 20 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.
