28 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2017 · latest filed Jan 21, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$3.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.3M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Natural Resources
NAT
28 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$430K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1230112th CongressRestarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1231112th CongressReversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5629111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jon A HrobskyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legisl Asst/Sr Legisl Asst-Rep. Scott McGinnis27 filingsthrough 2017
David BernhardtBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst.-Rep. Scott McInnis13 filingsthrough 2013
Michael B LevyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Sr. Advisor to the Secretary - U.S. Treasury Dept. ; ; Deputy Under Secretary/Asst. Secretary - U.S. Treasury Dept. ; ; Staff Economist - Congressional Joint Economics Committee ; ; Admin. Asst/Chief of Staff - Senator Lloyd Bentsen4 filingsthrough 2011
C Kyle Simpson
The filings
The 20 most recent of 28 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: cobalt-international-energy.
1 filing
$340K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
1 filing
$90K 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.
3 filings
through 2010
S. 3305111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3516111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1229112th CongressPutting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3534111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3643111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3663111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Covered position: Sr. Policy Advisor to Secretary-Dept. of Energy ; ; Associate Deputy Secretary-Dept. of Energy ; ; Staff Director-U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy
3 filingsthrough 2010
Jacob Andrew JohnsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst. - Senator Orrin Hatch ; ; Legislative Aide - Senator Orrin Hatch ; ; Legislative Correspondent - Senator Orrin Hatch ; ; Leg. Correspondent - Senate Judiciary Comm ; ; Staff Asst. - U.S. Senate - Judiciary Committee ; ; Legislative Intern - Senator Orrin Hatch3 filingsthrough 2010
Norman BrownsteinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
