36 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Aug 21, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$600K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$600K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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: algenol-biofuels-inc.
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.
ENG
8 filings
$370K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$80K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
3 filings
$210K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
1 filing
$70K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
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.
113th Congress
Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 143115th CongressMaking further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2976115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20192 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1149112th CongressTo amend the Clean Air Act to include algae-based biofuel in the renewable fuel program and amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include algae-based biofuel in the cellulosic biofuel producer credit.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 748112th CongressAlgae-Based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 2270112th CongressRural Energy Investment Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
4 filingsthrough 2019
Brett ThompsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD, Sen. J. Talent2 filingsthrough 2011
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, U.S. Treasury2 filingsthrough 2011
Jennifer OlsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD & LA, Sen. Lindsey Graham; LA, Rep. Kolbe2 filingsthrough 2011
JOHN BREAUX jrBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senate (18yrs) US Representative (2yrs)2 filingsthrough 2008
CHESTER TRENT LOTT srBreaux Lott Leadership GroupCovered position: US Senator (19 yrs), US Representative (1 yr)2 filingsthrough 2008
