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: calpine-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.
HOM
63 filings
$25.4M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
41 filings
$24.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
39 filings
$9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
30 filings
$10.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$190K 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.
116th Congress
Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2019
19 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2741116th CongressLeading Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s America Act19 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2957116th CongressNo Leniency for Terrorists Act of 201919 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3306116th CongressNuclear Energy Leadership Act19 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3961116th CongressRenewable Energy Extension Act of 201918 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 680116th CongressSecuring Energy Infrastructure Act16 filingsthrough 2020
S. 174116th CongressSecuring Energy Infrastructure Act16 filingsthrough 2020
S. 300116th CongressPipeline and LNG Facility Cybersecurity Preparedness Act16 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Cassidy & Associates, Inc.
Covered position: Senior Counsel, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee; Energy Counsel, Senator John Barrasso
Jessica M LenardDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Hon. Richard J. Durbin18 filingsthrough 2013
Eric S KesslerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. John D. Dingell18 filingsthrough 2013
Ryan MulvenonCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Policy Advisor- Senator Harry Reid; Policy Advisor- Senate Democratic Policy Committee; Legislative Aide-Senator Harry Reid; Legislative Correspondent-Senator Harry Reid; Intern, Office of Congressman Adam Smith (November 2003 - December 2003)17 filingsthrough 2026
Michael ScrivnerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. Norman F. Lent, Jr.16 filingsthrough 2013
NORMAN LENT iiiDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC16 filingsthrough 2013
Stephen C SayleDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Majority Counsel, House Energy & Commerce15 filingsthrough 2013
Moses MercadoOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff, Gephardt; Chief of Staff, Green13 filingsthrough 2017
Clarence AlbrightOgrCovered position: Under Secretary, Department of Energy ; ; Republican Staff Dir., House Energy & Commerce Committee ; ; Sr. Oversight Counsel, House Commerce Committee ; ; Chief Counsel, House Committee on District of Columbia13 filingsthrough 2017
Michael BarberaAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon12 filingsthrough 2020
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter11 filingsthrough 2020
Pete LeonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Hon. Eliot Engel11 filingsthrough 2013
Russell ThomassonCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Dir and Legislative Asst to Senator John Cornyn; Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Bob Smith9 filingsthrough 2022
Matt DolanAcg Advocacy9 filingsthrough 2020
Eriade WilliamsAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director/Senior Policy Advisory/Legislative Counsel - Rep. Robert A Brady; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretrary - Rep. Albert Wynn9 filingsthrough 2020
Aaron T WestonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC8 filingsthrough 2013
M Kenneth BowlerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC6 filingsthrough 2012
David ArthurCalpine Corporation6 filingsthrough 2009
NOE GARCIA iiiForward GlobalCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist; Associate Political Director, The White House; Senior Advisor, Public Affairs, US Treasury Department; Public Liaison, US Treasury Department; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Kay Hutchison5 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas MathiasenForward Global5 filingsthrough 2026
Tucker DavisForward Global5 filingsthrough 2026
William SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Deputy Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assist, House Member Office (Rogers); Staff Assistant, Senate Approps Cmte5 filingsthrough 2018
Jessica M LenardLevick Strategic CommunicationsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Hon. Richard J. Durbin5 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 31 of 43 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
