American Electric Power — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Electric Power
Ohio
158 filings from 8 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 4, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$5.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$5.5M
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: american-electric-power.
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.
CSP
21 filings
$630K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
19 filings
$365K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$590K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$20K 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.
through 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
17 filings
through 2013
Alexander Joseph BecklesAlexander J. Beckles, L.L.C.Covered position: Legis. Asst. Rep. Gus Savage (1987-1988)14 filingsthrough 2012
Michael MckennaMwr Strategies, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2012
Sean A. TaylorVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Judd Gregg (2001-2002); Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Connie Mack (2000-2001).7 filingsthrough 2020
Brian L KellyMr. Brian Kelly6 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew W ShoyerSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A5 filingsthrough 2009
Tracy A TolkVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Senior Leg Assistant, Rep. Jim Davis, 2001-045 filingsthrough 2009
Robert NordhausVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: General Counsel, US Dept. of Energy (1993-1997)3 filingsthrough 2010
