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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF · 1 client
66 filings
$12.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
66 filings
$12.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this firm's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Patrick J. LeahyD-Vermont
Bills: S. 984
3 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this firm's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Emily Elizer36 filings1 client · through 2026
Gabriel PellathyCovered position: Managing Director34 filings1 client · through 2018
William RiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Melissa Hart17 filings1 client · through 2013
Lynne SchmidtCovered position: N/A17 filings1 client · through 2013
Meghan Fisher17 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: ppg-industries-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 $13.2M in expenses.
BUD · 1 client
61 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
47 filings
$8.5M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
46 filings
$8.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
45 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
37 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
37 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT · 1 client
26 filings
$5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
24 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR · 1 client
18 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
18 filings
$3.4M 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.
1 client · through 2013
Ann Bedford14 filings1 client · through 2022
Covered positions · 3 of 6 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.
