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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
26 filings
$510K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
26 filings
$510K 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. 2238117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
Anna KarakitsosBracewell LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2008-2009), Research Assistant/Office Manager, Senate EPW Committee (2011-2012), Professional Staff Member, Senate EPW Committee (2012-2016)25 filingsthrough 2025
Joseph BrazauskasBracewell LLPCovered position: Cnsl, HComm on Oversight and Gov't Reform(2011-2015).SrCnsl, Env. Subcomm Staff Dir, H Science Space &TechComm(2015-2018).Assoc Dep. GC, USEPA (2018-2019).Assoc Admin Off. Cong&Intgvmt Relations(2019-2021).SrCnsl, HComm on Oversight&Reform(21-22)12 filingsthrough 2026
Yasmin NelsonBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Harris (2019-2021); Leg. Asst., Sen. Harris (2017-2019); Tax Policy Analyst, Committee on Finance (2016-2017); Leg. Aide, Sen. Stabenow (2015-2016); Staff Asst., Sen. Booker (2014-2015)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: association-of-plastic-recyclers.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020
6 filingsthrough 2020
S. 293117th CongressDignity for Aborted Children Act5 filingsthrough 2021
S. 3743117th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act4 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.
9 filings
through 2023
Edward KrenikBracewell LLPCovered position: Assoc. Admin. Cong. Affairs, EPA (2001-03); Leg. Director, Rep. Frelinghuysen (1994-2001); Leg. Asst./Assoc. Staff Rep. Dean Gallo (1989-94); Leg. Asst. Sen. Durenberger (1987-89)7 filingsthrough 2021
