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: the-american-legion.
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 $4.5M in expenses.
39 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
36 filings
$1M on those filings
Constitution
CON · 1 client
35 filings
$851K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
32 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Housing
HOU · 1 client
30 filings
$817K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
29 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Small Business
SMB · 1 client
29 filings
$948K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 1 client
16 filings
$337K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
1 filing
$11K 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.
Covered position: National Security Deputy Director
42 filings1 client · through 2019
John J. Kamin41 filings1 client · through 2023
Lawrence Montreuil31 filings1 client · through 2023
Verna L. Jones31 filings1 client · through 2018
Dean Stoline31 filings1 client · through 2016
Ian Deplanque30 filings1 client · through 2016
Gerardo Avila26 filings1 client · through 2019
Joseph Grassi26 filings1 client · through 2016
ARIEL A DE JESUS jr24 filings1 client · through 2019
Peter Gaytan24 filings1 client · through 2014
Roscoe Butler22 filings1 client · through 2018
Matthew John ShumanCovered position: Legislative Director21 filings1 client · through 2019
Rhonda PowellCovered position: National Security Director16 filings1 client · through 2021
Larry Lohmann16 filings1 client · through 2019
Jacob Gadd16 filings1 client · through 2014
Jake CorsiCovered position: Legislative Associate15 filings1 client · through 2026
Eric Johnson14 filings1 client · through 2025
Julia Mathis14 filings1 client · through 2025
Davy Gunnery Leghorn14 filings1 client · through 2019
Chanin NuntavongCovered position: Legislative Director13 filings1 client · through 2024
Zachary Alexander Rockford Hearn13 filings1 client · through 2016
John Stovall13 filings1 client · through 2014
JOHN THEODORE MEDIN iv10 filings1 client · through 2021
Ernest J. Robinson10 filings1 client · through 2019
Olivia Lee Gerrior BabineCovered position: LA to Rep. Tipton9 filings1 client · through 2023
Thomas Good9 filings1 client · through 2019
Covered positions · 13 of 76 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.
