Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
58 filings
$14.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
53 filings
$13.7M on those filings
Automotive Industry
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Anna-Maria Schneider71 filings1 client · through 2026
Donald DavidsonCovered position: Rep. Kay Granger: Staff Assistant (8/12-2/13), Leg. Correspondent (3/13-2/14), Leg. Assistant (2/14-3/17); Rep. Sam Johnson: Policy Adviser (3/17-3/18), Policy Director (4/18-5/18), Leg. Director (5/18-9/18), Deputy Chief of Staff (10/18-1/19)27 filings1 client · through 2026
Daniel Martins Ehreiser9 filings1 client · through 2009
David Geanacopoulos9 filings1 client · through 2009
LOUIS J BROWN jr7 filings1 client · through 2009
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Porsche Automobil
Germany
1 filing
through 2021
Volkswagen Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2021
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 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: volkswagen-group-of-america-inc.
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 $0 in fees and $18.8M in expenses.
AUT · 1 client
38 filings
$10M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
13 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
12 filings
$4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
5 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 1 client
4 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
4 filings
$970K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
1 filing
$110K 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.
Covered positions · 1 of 5 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.
