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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
26 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$480K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1229112th CongressPutting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act1 filingthrough 2011
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: bp-america.
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.
FUE
6 filings
$155K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
1 filing
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.
112th Congress
Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act
1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1231112th CongressReversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act1 filingthrough 2011
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.
15 filingsthrough 2014
Mark Warren IsakowitzFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Press Secretary for Congressman Gilmor15 filingsthrough 2014
Kirsten ChadwickFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs15 filingsthrough 2014
William PiperFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell15 filingsthrough 2014
Danielle MaurerFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB14 filingsthrough 2014
Howard UseemBluewater Strategies5 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew LundquistBluewater Strategies5 filingsthrough 2009
Nathan FreyRegulatory Strategies and Solutions Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President4 filingsthrough 2017
Eric Lee WashburnBluewater Strategies4 filingsthrough 2009
Chris SchloesserWinning Strategies Washington4 filingsthrough 2008
Alex DelpizzoWinning Strategies Washington4 filingsthrough 2008
Michael A MerolaWinning Strategies Washington4 filingsthrough 2008
Steven W SilverRobertson, Monagle & Eastaugh LLC1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 9 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
