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: recording-industry-association-of-america.
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.
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 $99.4M in expenses.
TEC · 1 client
31 filings
$40.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
8 filings
$12.5M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
8 filings
$12.1M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
8 filings
$10.5M on those filings
Unemployment
UNM · 1 client
7 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 1 client
7 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART · 1 client
5 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
4 filings
$6.6M 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.
Jim HagedornR-Minnesota-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 33
1 filing
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.
George Edward York41 filings1 client · through 2026
Jessica Stoll Richard37 filings1 client · through 2026
Thomas J Clees34 filings1 client · through 2026
Alexandrine DebianchiCovered position: LA Congressman Hank Johnson & Donald Payne20 filings1 client · through 2012
Michael PlattCovered position: LD Rep. Blackburn, LA Congressman Hutchinson17 filings1 client · through 2012
Mitch Bainwol17 filings1 client · through 2011
Paige Ralston Fromer5 filings1 client · through 2008
Joseph Stanton Papovich2 filings1 client · through 2010
Neil Turkewitz1 filing1 client · through 2010
Susan Munsat1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 16 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.
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2008
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
