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-travel-association.
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 $45.8M in expenses.
TRA · 1 client
67 filings
$45.4M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
64 filings
$42.6M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
63 filings
$43M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
54 filings
$35.9M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
37 filings
$22.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
33 filings
$19.6M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
30 filings
$25.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
26 filings
$23.2M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD · 1 client
25 filings
$18.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
17 filings
$10.1M 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.
Lorraine Howerton21 filings1 client · through 2020
Andrew NewhartCovered position: Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Executive Assistant, May 2008 - August 2008; House Committee on Homeland Security/Democratic Staff/Legislative Assistant, August 2008 - January 2011.17 filings1 client · through 2026
Nicole PorterCovered position: Senator John Ensign (R-NV), Staff Assistant, January 2002 - November 2003.17 filings1 client · through 2026
Jena Mcneill12 filings1 client · through 2017
Ryan PropisCovered position: House Foreign Affairs Cmte,Legal Fellow (2013); Rep. Yoho (FL),Counsel(2013-15);House Homeland Security Cmte,Senior Counsel (2015-18); DHS/TSA, Chief of Staff (Sched C)(2018-21); House Homeland Security Cmte,Dep Staff Director & Gen Counsel(2021-24)10 filings1 client · through 2026
Geoffrey Freeman10 filings1 client · through 2010
Melissa Gong10 filings1 client · through 2010
Courtney TempleCovered position: Rep. D. Hobson, Legislative Assistant9 filings1 client · through 2015
Richard Webster9 filings1 client · through 2009
Erica Riordan JonesCovered position: Worked on the Hill for Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) as a Staff Assistant from June 2014 - September 2015 and for Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) as a Legislative Correspondent and Legislative Assistant from September 2015- January 2021.8 filings1 client · through 2026
Jonathan Grella5 filings1 client · through 2017
Roger Dow2 filings1 client · through 2020
Michael Jacobson2 filings1 client · through 2017
Covered positions · 7 of 18 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.
