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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$510K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
8 filings
$510K on those filings
Defense
DEF
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: delfin-midstream-inc.
3 filings
$120K 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
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
2 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.
Covered position: Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy (2001-2005); Senator, U.S. Senate (1995-2001)
12 filingsthrough 2025
Bradford KnollenbergBlank Rome Government Relations12 filingsthrough 2025
David JansenBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Dir., Subcom. on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, House Cmte. on Transportation and Infrastructure (2011-2021); Sr. Prof. Staff, Subcom. on Insular Affairs, Wildlife and Oceans, House Cmte. on Natural Resources (1999-2010)12 filingsthrough 2025
Steven WallBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: General Counsel, Senate Commerce Cmte. (2019-2023); Dep. General Counsel, House Admin. Cmte. (2018-2019); Prof. Staff, Senate Approps. Cmte. (2015-2018); General Counsel, Senate Ag. Cmte. (2013-2015); Leg. Dir. & Counsel, Sen. Thad Cochran (2009-20136 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
