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: apache-corporation.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
13 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
9 filings
$830K on those filings
Education
EDU
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
4 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$270K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$140K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$360K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
1 filing
$130K 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.
S. 1555112th CongressRigs to Reefs Habitat Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3525112th CongressSportsmen's Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 977111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1215111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20081 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.
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS (Dec 07 - Dec 11), Press Secy (Dec 04 - Dec 07), Dep Press Secy (Dec 02 - Dec 04) to Sen. Inhofe.5 filingsthrough 2026
Richard CoppolaAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intern, Rep. Himes (Aug 17 - Dec 17); Intern, Sen. Blumenthal (Jan 18 - Mar 18)5 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary RudisillAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sen Portman, Jun 14-May 18, Tax Counsel; Rep. Dave Reichert, Jul 12-Jun 14,Legslat Directr/Tax Counsl; House Ways Means Comm, Dec 10-Jul 12; Rep. Dave Camp, Legislative Assist; House Ways and Means Comm.Aug. 10-Nov. 10,Rep Dave Camp, Intern4 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm3 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah TeslikApache Corporation3 filingsthrough 2009
