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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
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: berkshire-hathaway-energy.
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.
ENV
68 filings
$23.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
58 filings
$18M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
53 filings
$19.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
51 filings
$18.9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
39 filings
$13.4M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
38 filings
$13.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
26 filings
$11.3M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
25 filings
$11.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
23 filings
$9M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
21 filings
$7.8M 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.
114th Congress
Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act
15 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1629114th CongressEnergy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1630114th CongressUtility Energy Service Contracts Improvement Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 898114th CongressEnergy Production Fairness Act15 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 972114th CongressManaged Carbon Price Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 110114th CongressEnvironmental Protection Agency Accountability Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 112114th CongressCommon Sense in Species Protection Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 133114th CongressKlamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 177114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
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.
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.
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff and Counsel, Rep. Blumenauer (2007-2019)
19 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin Michael O'NeillArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP18 filingsthrough 2025
JOHN GERAND CARRIERE iiiBerkshire Hathaway Energy18 filingsthrough 2015
Blake SchindlerBerkshire Hathaway EnergyCovered position: Senator David Vitter (R-LA) Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent April 2011 - May 2014,Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) (then Representative Bill Cassidy (R-LA)) Legislative Assistant May 2014-December 2014,Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Policy Advisor13 filingsthrough 2026
Devlin DaneshforouzBerkshire Hathaway EnergyCovered position: Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Intern January 2009- June 2009 Staff Assistant 2009-2010 Constituent Services Manager 2010-2013 Project Coordinator 2016-201713 filingsthrough 2025
Melissa BurnisonBerkshire Hathaway EnergyCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Energy13 filingsthrough 2024
Kelly LugarBerkshire Hathaway Energy13 filingsthrough 2020
Paul James WatersArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, Rep. Scott Peters (2020)12 filingsthrough 2025
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP12 filingsthrough 2021
Josh FinestoneVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation11 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak11 filingsthrough 2026
John V. DrzewickiVenable LLPCovered position: Staff assistant, Rep. Steve Austria; Policy Advisor, US House of Representatives; Policy Director, House Republican Conference11 filingsthrough 2026
RICHARD JOSEPH WARD iiiVenable LLPCovered position: Communications Advisor, Senator Mitch McConnell; Senior Press Advance Representative, White House Office of Presidential Advance, Travel Manager, White House Travel Office; Special Assistant, Staff Assistant, White House Management Office11 filingsthrough 2026
Lucas GorakArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, Rep. Ted Lieu (2019); Intern, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State (2021)11 filingsthrough 2025
Norman Hunter JohnstonSteptoe LLP9 filingsthrough 2021
Jeffrey G. WeissSteptoe LLPCovered position: Asst. Leg. Adv. U.S. Mission to the WTO (2001-2004); Asst. Gen. Counsel/Sr. Dir. USTR (2004-2011); Assoc. Admin. OMB (2011-2013); Dep. Dir. U.S. DoC (2013-2017)8 filingsthrough 2026
Gregory NickersonThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Tax Counsel, Ways and Means Committee; Staff Director, Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee7 filingsthrough 2026
James Max PedrottiThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Carol Miller7 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary Austin PriceThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff assistant to Sen. Dan Coats6 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Aide/Special Assistant, Rep Abercrombie; Special Assistant, Rep Ackerman6 filingsthrough 2021
Jennifer MallardThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor to Chief Deputy Whip and House Energy and Commerce Committee MemberRickLazio(R-NY)6 filingsthrough 2021
ALEXANDER NICHOLAS VOGEL srThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Former Chief Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist6 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 37 of 54 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
