Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 62 clients
752 filings
$14.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 51 clients
658 filings
$13.3M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Brett GarsonCovered position: Principal1,514 filings82 clients · through 2026
James Patrick SmithCovered position: Principal1,025 filings94 clients · through 2024
Mary Catherine BrooksCovered position: Director of the Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition444 filings34 clients · through 2018
Gregory AndrewsCovered position: Principal368 filings36 clients · through 2022
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Neste Oyj
Finland
1 filing
through 2020
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.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 2,718 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: smith-garson.
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 $44.1M in fees and $0 in expenses.
ECN · 33 clients
218 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 16 clients
182 filings
$6M on those filings
Education
EDU · 21 clients
177 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 21 clients
163 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 21 clients
155 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB · 23 clients
151 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 22 clients
118 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 14 clients
115 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR · 6 clients
114 filings
$472K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 18 clients
88 filings
$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.
Catherine Beal
314 filings21 clients · through 2025
Kierstin Stradford-PattersonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent and Systems Administration, Rep. Elijah Cummings Legislative Assistant and Systems Administration, Rep. Kweisi Mfume297 filings29 clients · through 2026
Robert GainesCovered position: Principal253 filings23 clients · through 2026
Kirsten M PrattCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Peter DeFazio178 filings22 clients · through 2026
Benjamin OdendahlCovered position: Law and Policy Fellow - Rep. Terri Sewell169 filings27 clients · through 2026
Brian HanniganCovered position: Principal120 filings14 clients · through 2022
Cameron Delo102 filings19 clients · through 2026
Kirk BaileyCovered position: Principal88 filings14 clients · through 2010
Thomas C DawsonCovered position: Principal67 filings19 clients · through 2009
ERNEST RAY WARNER jrCovered position: Principal61 filings5 clients · through 2014
Michael Bauman32 filings13 clients · through 2019
John BairCovered position: Staff Assistant - Rep. Ron DeSantis31 filings6 clients · through 2026
Michael BuccieroCovered position: Principal20 filings4 clients · through 2010
Judith BurrellCovered position: Dept. of Transportation Executive Secretariat17 filings5 clients · through 2012
Aidan Spencer16 filings5 clients · through 2026
William NewmanCovered position: Principal14 filings3 clients · through 2008
Mollie W LopezCovered position: Principal5 filings2 clients · through 2008
Jake Sandler3 filings2 clients · through 2014
Ronald WillisCovered position: Principal3 filings2 clients · through 2008
John Cech2 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 19 of 25 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.
