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: basf-corporation.
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.
TAR
65 filings
$23.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
62 filings
$24.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
57 filings
$23.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
55 filings
$19.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
52 filings
$15.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
40 filings
$15.5M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
25 filings
$12.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
25 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
18 filings
$2M 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.
117th Congress
RECYCLE Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2238117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 799117th CongressSCALE Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 923117th CongressRECYCLE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 984117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2051116th CongressSustainable Chemistry Research and Development Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 999116th CongressSustainable Chemistry Research and Development Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 720114th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1189118th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1194118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2777117th CongressAdvanced Recycling Research and Development Act of 20217 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.
through 2015
Laura Berkey-AmesBasf Corporation21 filingsthrough 2026
Gregory A ThiesBasf Corporation14 filingsthrough 2012
Michael AndersonBasf Corporation13 filingsthrough 2026
Richard M GoldHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 3/91-2/93 Sp. Asst. for Env. Affrs., Sen. Lloyd Bentsen ; ; 3/93-11/94 Sp. Asst. to EPA Administrator Carol Browner3 filingsthrough 2013
Kerry FeeheryHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 9/09-1/11 Chief of Staff, Sen. George LeMieux ; ; 1/07-9/09 Director, State Office of Sen. LeMieux ; ; 1/05-1/07 Communiations Dir., Sen. Mel Martinez ; ; 7/04-1/05 Policy Analyst, S. Budget Committee ; ; 2/99-10/00 Press Secretary, Joint Economic Cmte. ; ; 1/97-2/99 Deputy Press Secretary, Sen. Connie Mack ; ; 1/95-1/97 Special Assistant, Sen. Connie Mack ; ; 8/94-1/95 Staff Assistant, Sen. Connie Mack3 filingsthrough 2013
Bruce HeimanK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Justin HolmanK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Daniel F. C. CrowleyK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 5 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
