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-business-roundtable-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 $335.3M in expenses.
TRD · 1 client
68 filings
$333.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
66 filings
$327.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
58 filings
$306.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
48 filings
$215.3M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN · 1 client
47 filings
$229.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
46 filings
$249.6M on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
46 filings
$214.9M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
46 filings
$186.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
42 filings
$241.9M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
38 filings
$170.4M 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.
47 filings1 client · through 2026
Joshua BoltenCovered position: Chief of Staff, The White House; Director, Office of Management & Budget, The White House; Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, The White House39 filings1 client · through 2026
Elizabeth DoughertyCovered position: Chair, National Mediation Board; Board Member, National Mediation Board; Special Assistant to President G.W. Bush, Executive Office of the President; Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Safety, and Training38 filings1 client · through 2026
Matthew SpikesCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin36 filings1 client · through 2026
Corey AstillCovered position: Leg Dir, Sen D Fisher; Staff Dir, Sen Fin Infrastructure Subcomm; Chief Counsel/Sen Staff Dir, Cong Joint Econ Comm; Counsel, Sen D Coats; Leg Asst, Sen B Bennett; Legal Intern, DOJ; Leg Corr, Sen J Kyl; Intern, House Western Caucus35 filings1 client · through 2025
William AndersonCovered position: Intern, The White House Correspondence and Public Liaison Office; Intern, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt; Staff Director, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, House Committee on Financial Services34 filings1 client · through 2026
Kristen SilverbergCovered position: Amb. to the EU; Asst Sec of State-Intl Org Affairs, State Dept; Special Asst to the Pres, White House; Dep Asst to the Pres for Domestic Policy, White House; Dep Asst to the Pres & Advisor to the Chief of Staff, White House33 filings1 client · through 2026
Donald McintoshCovered position: Chief of Staff & Chief Counsel, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Attorney Advisor/Special Assistant, EEOC; Professional Staff Member, House Education & the Workforce Committee & Legislative Assistant, House Education & the Workforce Comm32 filings1 client · through 2026
Katie Sarro32 filings1 client · through 2026
Marian E Hopkins32 filings1 client · through 2017
Scott Farnham31 filings1 client · through 2026
Sarah Ann Linden30 filings1 client · through 2026
WILLIAM C MILLER jrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. C. Morella27 filings1 client · through 2019
William David Thomas27 filings1 client · through 2018
Javier GamboaCovered position: Sr. Prof Staff, House Sel. Cmte on Climate Crisis; Prof Staff, House Energy&Comm Cmte; Dpty Chief of Staff&Leg Dir, Rep. Van Drew; Leg Dir, Rep. Barragan; Energy Pol Analyst/Leg Asst, Rep. Castor; Staff Asst, Intern, Sen. Envt&Public Wks Cmte26 filings1 client · through 2026
Catherine Schultz25 filings1 client · through 2026
Paul A JacksonCovered position: Associate Bureau Chief, Media Bureau, FCC; Director, Acting Director, and Deputy Director, Office of Legislative Affairs, FCC; Special Asst, Office of Commr Michael Powell, FCC; Staff, House Energy and Commerce Comm.25 filings1 client · through 2026
Elizabeth Gasster20 filings1 client · through 2017
Melissa Dimarzio19 filings1 client · through 2024
Casey Denoyer NelsonCovered position: Legislative Director; Senior Policy Advisor for Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11)18 filings1 client · through 2026
PAUL HENRY DELANEY iiiCovered position: International Trade Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Deputy Chief of Staff, USTR17 filings1 client · through 2022
Denise ZhengCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs15 filings1 client · through 2021
Amy Shuart GingrichCovered position: U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means: Social Security Subcommittee Staff Director, Professional Staff.14 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 29 of 55 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.
