51 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Oct 20, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$920K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$920K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
45 filings
$910K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
39 filings
$730K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5538114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5538115th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the inclusion of certain additional periods of active duty service for purposes of suspending charges to veterans' entitlement to educational assistance under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs during periods of suspended participation in vocational rehabilitation programs.1 filingthrough 2017
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
David WetmoreCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: LA-Sen Pete Wilson, Snr LA-Sen John Seymour38 filingsthrough 2018
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: california-independent-petroleum-association.
fees reported
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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.
BUD
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
1 filing
$10K 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.
through 2011
Eric Lewis SwedlundCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: LD to Rep Stephen Horn10 filingsthrough 2018
Julie Adair MinervaCarpi & Clay, IncCovered position: LA to Rep Robert Matsui7 filingsthrough 2018
George Nicholas CaramMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Officer, Special Assistant, National Security Council; Sr. LA, LA, LC, Sr. Staff Asst, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Special Asst, Rep. C.W. Bill Young6 filingsthrough 2020
