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: celanese-corporation.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
ENV
47 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
43 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
42 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
28 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
25 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
17 filings
$771K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
12 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
6 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
3 filings
$210K 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.
118th Congress
Railway Safety Act of 2023
8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1044118th CongressRailway Accountability Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 576118th CongressRailway Safety Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 844118th CongressAssistance for Local Heroes During Train Crises Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4470118th CongressProtecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1415119th CongressNo IRIS Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8998119th CongressResearching Innovative Shipbuilding and Next-Generation Transit Infrastructure for Durable and Efficient Systems6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 615119th CongressChemical Tax Repeal Act6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 623119th CongressNo IRIS Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1195118th CongressChemical Tax Repeal Act6 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Andrew R WheelerFaegre Baker Daniels ConsultingCovered position: Staff Dir & Chief Councel Senate Committee on Environment8 filingsthrough 2012
Erik HeilmanCelanese Corporation7 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew Joseph SiracuseHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Sr. Tax Cnsl., Sen. John Cornyn; Staff Dir., Sen. Fin. Cmte. Int'l. Trade, Customs & Global Comp. Sbcmte., Tax Cnsl., Sen. Cornyn; Cnsl. Sen. Cornyn; Staff Dir. Sen. Fin. Cmte, Energy, Nat. Res. Sbcmte.; LA, Sen. Cornyn; LA, Sen. Norm Coleman5 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew EhrlichFaegre Baker Daniels Consulting5 filingsthrough 2012
Todd WootenHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA, Counsel, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Leg. Dir, Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Prof. Staff, Sen. Agriculture Cmte., Prof. Staff, Sen. Energy & Natural Resources Cmte., Prof. Staff, Sen. Finance Cmte.3 filingsthrough 2025
