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: u-s-public-interest-research-group.
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 $2M in expenses.
BUD · 1 client
36 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
32 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
30 filings
$795K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK · 1 client
28 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
28 filings
$669K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
26 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
24 filings
$620K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
19 filings
$718K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
16 filings
$980K 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.
Blair BowieCovered position: Advocate
12 filings1 client · through 2013
Gary Kalman12 filings1 client · through 2012
Elizabeth Hitchcock10 filings1 client · through 2011
Elise Orlick9 filings1 client · through 2017
Emma Boorboor9 filings1 client · through 2016
Nasima HossainCovered position: Advocate9 filings1 client · through 2013
RICHARD T WILLIAMS jr8 filings1 client · through 2012
LARRY C MCNEELY ii8 filings1 client · through 2011
John Krieger8 filings1 client · through 2010
Isaac Bowers7 filings1 client · through 2025
Jerry SlominskiCovered position: United States Senate in 1986-19896 filings1 client · through 2017
Amina FazlullahCovered position: FCC, EEOC - Law Clerk at Each6 filings1 client · through 2010
Bart Johnsen-Harris5 filings1 client · through 2020
Lisa Gilbert5 filings1 client · through 2010
Nicole TichonCovered position: Legislative Assistant; Leg Corresp.5 filings1 client · through 2010
Mario Salazar4 filings1 client · through 2015
Alexandria R Robins3 filings1 client · through 2017
Jamie Woo3 filings1 client · through 2015
Luke Swarthout3 filings1 client · through 2008
Samuel Reinert2 filings1 client · through 2022
William H. Wenzel2 filings1 client · through 2017
Anastasia Owens2 filings1 client · through 2016
Melanie Alvarez Vazquez1 filing1 client · through 2026
Kaitlyn Vitez1 filing1 client · through 2017
Christopher Mackenzie1 filing1 client · through 2017
Covered positions · 7 of 30 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.
