Centerpoint Energy, Inc. — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Centerpoint Energy, Inc.
Texas
44 filings from 4 registrants · 2010–2024 · latest filed Jan 16, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$6.5M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.6M
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.
Demetrius G McdanielGreenberg Traurig, LLP18 filingsthrough 2022
Clarence AlbrightCenterpoint Energy, Inc.Covered position: Under Secretary, Dept. of Energy, 2007-200917 filingsthrough 2014
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 Columbia10 filingsthrough 2016
Sarah VenutoCenterpoint Energy, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: centerpoint-energy-inc.
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.
18 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$5M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
10 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
9 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
9 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
8 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
4 filings
$1.9M 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.
112th Congress
Defending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act
6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 398112th CongressImplementation of National Consensus Appliance Agreements Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 559112th CongressSecuring America's Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.Con.Res. 24113th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1003113th CongressTo improve consideration by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of the costs and benefits of its regulations and orders.5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1027113th CongressAdvanced Vehicle Technology Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1038113th CongressPublic Power Risk Management Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 259113th CongressEnergy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 271113th CongressResolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 400113th CongressClean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 540113th CongressEnergy Efficient Government Technology Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 596113th CongressPublic Lands Renewable Energy Development Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 621113th CongressEnsuring Affordable Energy Act5 filingsthrough 2014
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.
James GouldOgr7 filingsthrough 2016
Tony EssalihCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS, LD, LA House Member Office (Culberson); LA House Member Office (Archer); SA House Member Office (Hastings): Intern House Member Office (Bliley)6 filingsthrough 2024
Tyler Brian NelsonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office, Deputy Chief of Staff House Member Office, District Director (Olson)6 filingsthrough 2024
Jonathan BeckerGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Amy Klobuchar (2010-13); Chief Counsel, Senator Amy Klobuchar (2007-09)4 filingsthrough 2019
Sarah VenutoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor(Manchin); Counsel, Comm Energy & Natural Resources Chief Counsel; Chief Counsel (Manchin); Staff Director, Comm on Energy & Natural Resources; Director, Office of External Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission3 filingsthrough 2024
L Andrew ZausnerGreenberg Traurig, LLP3 filingsthrough 2018
Tim HutchinsonGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator (97-03); U.S. Congressman (93-97)2 filingsthrough 2018
Randy ForbesGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman (2001 - 2017)2 filingsthrough 2018
Eric ToberCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst House Member (Bruce); Sen Project Dir (Johnston)1 filingthrough 2024
Michael Joseph FalenckiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep Staff Dir, House Transportation & Infrastructure Comm; Staff Dir, Subcomm on Highways & Transit (T&I); Staff Dir, Subcomm on Railroads, Pipelines, & Hazardous Materials (T&I); Legislative Dir, Deputy CoS Staff, House Member Office (S. Graves)1 filingthrough 2024
Michael RogersGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Jack Reed (2014-2016); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (2016-2018)1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 11 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
