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-water.
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.
BUD
38 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
16 filings
$480K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$510K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$330K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$120K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$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 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
Clean Water SRF Parity Act of 2025
10 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8115th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20189 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 250118th CongressClean Water SRF Parity Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 692115th CongressWater Infrastructure Flexibility Act7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1267119th CongressWater Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2594119th CongressTo establish a Water Risk and Resilience Organization to develop risk and resilience requirements for the water sector.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5515115th CongressJohn S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20196 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20196 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2975115th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20196 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2872119th CongressRESILIENCE Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4394118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20245 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2596116th CongressVoluntary Water Partnership for Distressed Communities Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
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.
18 filings
through 2020
David RussellBryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP16 filingsthrough 2015
Matt JesseeBryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP16 filingsthrough 2015
Ann A. AdlerPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Sen Robert Byrd: CoS (2000-04); House Natural Resources Cmte: Sr Policy Advisor (2004-07), Dep CoS (2007-11); House Transportation Cmte: Dep CoS (2011-15); Interior Dept: Chief, Congressional/Legislative Affairs (2015-17); Rep Sean Casten: CoS (2019)10 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew ManningK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Congressman Jimmy Panetta; Military Legislative Assistant, Congressman Brad Ashford; Legislative Aid, Senator Mark Udall10 filingsthrough 2024
Andrew Hillerich TablerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Research Assistant, House Armed Services Committee; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs9 filingsthrough 2024
Judson GreifGreenfield Government Strategies, LLC9 filingsthrough 2019
Andrew J TerpPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2012-2016: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Todd Young (IN-09); 2017-2019 Legislative Assistant, Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)8 filingsthrough 2025
Stefan BaileyPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2003-2004: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09); 2004-2005: Press Secretary/Legislative Director, Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09); 2005-2007: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Rahall (WV-03)7 filingsthrough 2026
Michael ChiricoAmerican WaterCovered position: District Director, Deputy COS, and COS, Rep. Jenkins, (2015-2019); Deputy COS and Counsel, (2019-2020), Rep. Miller; Attorney Advisor, (2020-2021) - Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission6 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher MccannAmerican WaterCovered position: Legislative Assistant (2019-2020), Legislative Director (2021-2022)- Rep. Madeleine Dean; Government Affairs Lead, Delaware River Basin Commission (2022-2025)6 filingsthrough 2026
Aquila PowellPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation5 filingsthrough 2024
Timothy LeahyAmerican Water5 filingsthrough 2017
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLP4 filingsthrough 2017
Bart GordonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman4 filingsthrough 2017
Tom ReedPrime Policy GroupCovered position: 2010-2022: U.S. Representative (NY-23), House of Representatives3 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah SwansonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Intern, Senator Chris Murphy; Intern/Staff Assistant/Executive Assistant, Senator Tom Carper3 filingsthrough 2023
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2024
Paul StimersK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2022
Darrell ConnerK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2022
Stacy EttingerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Atty/Chief, AD/CVD Regulation/Assoc Ch Cnsl, DoC, Office of Genl Cnsl; Trade Cnsl detailee from DoC to JEC; Dep Staff Dir, JEC; Sr Cnsl, Sen Schumer; Sr Cnsl/Acting Dep Staff Dir/Ch Cnsl/Dem Ch Cnsl, Sen Comm Rules & Admin2 filingsthrough 2018
