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: united-states-telecom-assn.
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 $64.4M in expenses.
CPT · 1 client
40 filings
$30.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
30 filings
$43.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
23 filings
$12.8M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
9 filings
$14.5M 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.
26 filings1 client · through 2026
Alan J RothCovered position: St.Dir./C.Cnsl.H.E&C 93-7;C.Cnsl.92;Cnsl:85-9226 filings1 client · through 2016
Hawley StantonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Rep. Robert E. Latta (2014-2017)25 filings1 client · through 2023
Jeremy PedersonCovered position: Legislative Counsel, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (2014-2016)18 filings1 client · through 2021
Nicole HenryCovered position: Senator Gary Peters15 filings1 client · through 2025
Meagan FosterCovered position: SA 2003-04, Robert Matsui; LA 2009-11, Begich15 filings1 client · through 2017
Annie ChavezCovered position: Cnsl, Sen. Jeff Bingaman: 05-1013 filings1 client · through 2014
Alanna ChapellCovered position: Rep. Dan Kildee12 filings1 client · through 2026
Trevor JonesCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (2016-2019)11 filings1 client · through 2021
Ainslie Lane9 filings1 client · through 2026
Sean Farrell8 filings1 client · through 2013
Gregory WillisCovered position: GCnsl/Cnsl S.Sm.Bus:06-10;Cnsl,S.Lincoln:03-068 filings1 client · through 2012
Michael PaulsCovered position: United States Office of Management and Budget7 filings1 client · through 2023
Caroline Graves Hurley7 filings1 client · through 2010
Benjamin EllesonCovered position: Rep Kat Cammack5 filings1 client · through 2024
Regina Hopper5 filings1 client · through 2009
David Barry Cohen5 filings1 client · through 2009
Jonathan Banks5 filings1 client · through 2009
Robert Mayer5 filings1 client · through 2009
Jay Cho4 filings1 client · through 2026
Kelly MisselwitzCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (2015-2018)4 filings1 client · through 2018
Kevin Rupy4 filings1 client · through 2008
Glenn Reynolds4 filings1 client · through 2008
Clinton Highfill2 filings1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 14 of 33 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.
