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 lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: air-conditioning-heating-and-refrigeration-institute.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
ENV
55 filings
$11.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
43 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
37 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
14 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
7 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$884K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$650K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$530K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$140K 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 spend 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.
H.R. 2975117th CongressTo amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to modify the definition of water heater under energy conservation standards, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3456117th CongressHOPE for HOMES Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 848117th CongressGREEN Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1768117th CongressHOPE for HOMES Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2118117th CongressClean Energy for America Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2370117th CongressZero-Emission Homes Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S.Res. 224117th CongressA resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States must seize the opportunity to create millions of jobs, become a net exporter of clean energy, and secure a better, more equitable future by accelerating the electrification of households, buildings, and businesses in the United States, modernizing the United States electricity grid, and continuing on the path towards decarbonizing electricity generation in the United States by 2035.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3938118th CongressBuild It in America Act7 filingsthrough 2024
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Robert F HelminiakAir-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute13 filingsthrough 2011
Kelley RaymondAir-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute12 filingsthrough 2019
Deirdre StachMercury Public Affairs, LLC11 filingsthrough 2019
Vin WeberMercury Public Affairs, LLC11 filingsthrough 2018
David Bruce VitterMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Senator, 2005-2017 US Representative, 1999-2005 Member, Louisiana House of Representatives (not federal), 1992-199910 filingsthrough 2018
Joe TraugerAir-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration InstituteCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Rod Grams; Senior Legislative Assistant, Congressman Sam Johnson; Policy Advisor, Majority Leader Dick Armey; Senior Policy Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt9 filingsthrough 2018
Donald DavisAir-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration InstituteCovered position: N/A7 filingsthrough 2009
Allison Elise MaginotAir-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute6 filingsthrough 2022
