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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
227 filings
$131.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
209 filings
$126.8M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 907 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.20 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.16 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Harriet M. HagemanR-Wyoming-AL
Bills: H.R. 1, H.R. 3413, H.R. 3982 +7 more
61 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
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-petroleum-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.
FUE
205 filings
$129M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
111 filings
$116.5M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
95 filings
$119M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
94 filings
$121.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
90 filings
$101.8M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
83 filings
$115.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
76 filings
$89.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
57 filings
$92.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
30 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
18 filings
$1.5M 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.
15 filings
through 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.14 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.14 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.14 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act13 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1461113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act13 filingsthrough 2014
S. 307113th CongressClose Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act12 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5073118th CongressPromoting Domestic Energy Production Act11 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1462113th CongressRFS Reform Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 200711 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3684118th CongressDouglas Mike Day Psychedelic Therapy to Save Lives Act of 202310 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2910115th CongressPromoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2766111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Stephen Edward ComstockAmerican Petroleum Institute57 filingsthrough 2021
Michael Dee BuchananOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference; Chief of Staff/ Dep. Chief of Staff/ Legislative Director, Rep. Jeb Hensarling; Dir, Sen. Phil Gramm38 filingsthrough 2024
Jack GerardAmerican Petroleum InstituteCovered position: Leg. Dir. to Sen. James A. McClure <1988-199038 filingsthrough 2018
John CramtonAmerican Petroleum InstituteCovered position: Assoc. Deputy Ass't Sec., Sen. Affairs, U.S. Dep't of Energy, '19-'20; Leg. Pol'y Adv., U.S. Dep't of Energy, '18-'19; Pol'y Adv., Cassidy, '15-'18; LC, Cassidy, '14-'15.28 filingsthrough 2026
Matt BravoS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Floor Operations for Maj. Whip Steve Scalise; Prof Staff, E&C; Floor Asst to Maj. Leader Eric Cantor27 filingsthrough 2026
Michael FerenceS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Pol Adv, Maj. Leader Eric Cantor and Maj Whip Roy Blunt; Leg Asst, Senator Inhofe27 filingsthrough 2026
LF PAYNE jrMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: Former US Congressman26 filingsthrough 2018
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Subcmte on Public Health; Majority Health PolicyCounsel, House Cmte on Ways & Means, Subcmte on HealthHealth Policy Coordinator & Counsel, Sen Cmte on Labor &Human Resources; Counsel & Prof Staff Member, Sen. Cmteon Labor & Human Resources, Subcmte on Disability PolicyCase Worker, Rep. Rudy Roschwitz25 filingsthrough 2014
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Relations, FTC; Dep Dir Legislative Affairs, VP GoreStaff Assistant, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum25 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 123 of 206 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
