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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
98 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
69 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 120 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1346119th CongressTo amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.11 filingsthrough 2026
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: american-coalition-for-ethanol.
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.
TAX
20 filings
$816K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
12 filings
$517K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$684K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
7 filings
$650K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$388K 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.
119th Congress
Restoring Fuel Market Freedom Act of 2025
11 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2707119th CongressFEED Act of 202511 filingsthrough 2026
S. 593119th CongressNationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 202511 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1608118th CongressConsumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2434118th CongressNext Generation Fuels Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 785118th CongressConsumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
S. 944118th CongressNext Generation Fuels Act of 20239 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1113117th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Integrity Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1311115th CongressConsumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act8 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Eric Lee Washburn
Bluewater Strategies
Covered position: & Public Works Cmte, Sen Reid; Leg Dir, Sen Daschle ; ; Leg Asst, Sen Daschle
8 filingsthrough 2011
Andrew LundquistBluewater StrategiesCovered position: Director, National Energy Policy Development Group, White ; ; House; Maj Staff Dir, Sen Energy & Natural Resources Cmte ; ; COS, Sen Frank Murkowski; Counsel, Sen Energy Cmte; Sr LA, ; ; Sen Stevens; LA, Sen Stevens; LC, Sen Stevens; Staff Asst,8 filingsthrough 2011
Eric WashburnWindward Consulting4 filingsthrough 2008
Jonathan BirdsongBluewater StrategiesCovered position: Leg. Director., Cong. Mike Thompson, 2002-20103 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
