Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR · 4 clients
74 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB · 1 client
61 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Wayne Smith261 filings13 clients · through 2024
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
British American Tobacco P.L.C.
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2017
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 235 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Client
Type
Reported
Record
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2023
American Psychological Association Services Inc (Formerly Apapo)
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-potomac-group.
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 $6M in fees and $0 in expenses.
MMM · 2 clients
48 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 5 clients
32 filings
$705K on those filings
Railroads
RRR · 1 client
5 filings
$92K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
4 filings
$50K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
4 filings
$10K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
3 filings
$15K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
2 filings
$15K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
1 filing
$15K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
1 filing
$15K 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.
