40 filings from 5 registrants · 2012–2018 · latest filed Oct 17, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$460K
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.
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: clean-line-energy-partners-llc.
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.
12 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
12 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
12 filings
$210K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$50K 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.
114th Congress
APPROVAL Act
12 filingsthrough 2016
S. 485114th CongressAPPROVAL Act12 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Covered position: Counsel - House Cmmte on Natural Resources (1987-2008)
5 filingsthrough 2017
Cathy KochErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Chief Advisor, Tax and Economics to Sen. Reid (2012-2015); Tax Chief, Senate Finance Committee (2007-2010)4 filingsthrough 2017
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Staff Dir, Ways & Means Subcommittee on Oversight (1995-1998)4 filingsthrough 2017
Thomas DennisCassidy & Associates, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2012
