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.
Austen JensenCovered position: COS/Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant for Rep Patrick McHenry (14-15; 06-10); Deputy COS/Legislative Director for Rep Frank Guinta (11-12); Deputy COS/Legislative Director for Rep Robert Pittenger (13-14)46 filings1 client · through 2026
Evan Armstrong45 filings1 client · through 2026
Nicholas AhrensCovered position: US Department of Commerce: Counsel to the General Counsel (13-14); Special Assistant to the General Counsel (11-13)35 filings1 client · through 2021
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: retail-industry-leaders-association.
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 $41.9M in expenses.
TEC · 1 client
68 filings
$41.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
68 filings
$41.9M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
68 filings
$41.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
68 filings
$41.9M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
65 filings
$40.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
56 filings
$35.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
56 filings
$34.9M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
56 filings
$33.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
49 filings
$32.9M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 1 client
20 filings
$13.7M 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.
Andrew Szente
35 filings1 client · through 2015
Christine Pollack32 filings1 client · through 2017
Kelly D KolbCovered position: Acting Asst Secretary of Govt Affairs, DOT32 filings1 client · through 2016
Joe Rinzel30 filings1 client · through 2017
Michael HansonCovered position: House of Representatives: Chief of Staff (Rep. Sam Johnson)27 filings1 client · through 2025
Brennan Robert Duckett27 filings1 client · through 2021
David Koenig27 filings1 client · through 2021
Stephanie Lester27 filings1 client · through 2014
Blake HardenCovered position: House of Representatives: Trade Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means; U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Attorney, CBP Office of Chief Counsel25 filings1 client · through 2025
Jennifer M. SafavianCovered position: US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Cmte on Ways & Means - GC/Staff Director (11-14); Cmte on Energy & Commerce - Counsel (01-03); Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform - Chief Counsel (03-11), Chief Counsel/Staff Director (98-00), Invest. Counsel (97-98)23 filings1 client · through 2019
Hun QuachCovered position: ASST USTR for Congressional Affairs; International Trade Analyst/Advisor at Senate Finance Committee; Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent for Representative Adam Smith21 filings1 client · through 2019
David J Garriepy20 filings1 client · through 2014
Austin Gold19 filings1 client · through 2026
Justin Nathaniel Goldberger18 filings1 client · through 2026
Joseph Williamson18 filings1 client · through 2021
Doug Thompson18 filings1 client · through 2014
Katherine Lugar18 filings1 client · through 2013
Sarah Gilmore17 filings1 client · through 2026
Bill Hughes17 filings1 client · through 2014
Brian Dodge14 filings1 client · through 2019
Kirt C Johnson14 filings1 client · through 2014
Courtney Titus Brooks12 filings1 client · through 2026
Sarah Cudworth Arbes10 filings1 client · through 2010
Carolyn Burnett9 filings1 client · through 2013
Hana GreenbergCovered position: Rep. Ron Kind: Chief of Staff (January 2019-August 2021), Legislative Director (November 2017-Jan 2019), Economic Policy Advisor (Jan '15-Nov'17); Sen. Chuck Schumer: Leg Aide (Dec '10-Nov-13), Correspondence Assistant (Aug '09-Dec'10)8 filings1 client · through 2023
Jim Neill7 filings1 client · through 2012
Margaret Burnside6 filings1 client · through 2014
Covered positions · 10 of 41 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.
