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
38 filings
$710K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: cb-i.
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.
113th Congress
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014
3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4923113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2028115th CongressHealthy Relationships Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
S. 2804115th CongressCultivating Resources, Opportunity, Prosperity, and Sustainability (CROPS) for Indian Country Act1 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.
Michael FerenceS-3 GroupCovered position: Dir of Strategic Development for Majority Leader Eric Cantor13 filingsthrough 2015
Martin DelgadoS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Dir, House Ag Approps, Prof Staff, Milcon/VA Approps9 filingsthrough 2018
Jonathan BirdsongBluewater StrategiesCovered position: Leg. Dir., Cong. Mike Thompson9 filingsthrough 2014
Howard UseemBluewater StrategiesCovered position: Sr. Prof. Staff Member, Sen. ENR Committee8 filingsthrough 2014
Jeff ShockeyS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Director, House Approps Comm8 filingsthrough 2014
Eric Lee WashburnBluewater StrategiesCovered position: Dir, Sen. EPW Com., Leg. Dir., Sen. Daschle5 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
