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: black-veatch.
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.
ENG
35 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
33 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
17 filings
$762K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
16 filings
$928K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
16 filings
$895K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
12 filings
$610K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
9 filings
$472K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
9 filings
$385K 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.
110th Congress
To repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities.
7 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1118th CongressLower Energy Costs Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7944118th CongressWater Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 275111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 4896118th CongressPromotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act3 filingsthrough 2024
H.J.Res. 39118th CongressDisapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Commerce relating to "Procedures Covering Suspension of Liquidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord With Presidential Proclamation 10414".2 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2827118th CongressBIG WIRES Act2 filingsthrough 2023
S. 4753118th CongressEnergy Permitting Reform Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5892112th CongressHydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
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 2021
Thomas RossBlack & Veatch2 filingsthrough 2025
Paul DoerrerCardinal Point Partners2 filingsthrough 2008
Con LassBlack & Veatch1 filingthrough 2025
Gordon TaylorBlack & Veatch1 filingthrough 2025
Chris GiblinBlack & Veatch1 filingthrough 2025
Tucker ShumackBlack & Veatch1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 1 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
