Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Exploration and Production Council
District of Columbia
13 filings from 3 registrants · 2022–2026 · latest filed Jul 15, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$590K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$590K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Natural Resources
NAT
10 filings
$490K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$100K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 4521 117th CongressStrategic Competition Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Luke Johnson The Bernhardt Group LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor Sen. Robert Bennett; Dep. Director of Policy & Programs BLM; Chief of Cong/Leg Affairs Bureau of Reclamation; Leg. Staff House Natural Resources Cmte; LA Rep. James Hansen6 filingsthrough 2026
- Luke Johnson Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: SenPolicyAdv Sen Robert Bennett; Dep Dir of Policy&Programs BLM;ChfofStaff BLM; ChfofCong/Leg Affrs Bur of Reclamation; LegAst SenRobert Bennett; LegStaff Hs Nat Res Comm; LegAst Rep James Hansen6 filingsthrough 2025
- Frank Vlossak Williams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: LA, Rep. Merrill Cook4 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-exploration-and-production-council.