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: duke-energy.
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.
83 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
74 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
39 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
11 filings
$275K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$540K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$105K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$45K 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
Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 228112th CongressDefending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1685116th CongressLaunching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2042114th CongressRatepayer Protection Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 231112th CongressEPA Stationary Source Regulations Suspension Act7 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
S. 280110th CongressClimate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2250112th CongressEPA Regulatory Relief Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2273112th CongressCoal Residuals Reuse and Management Act6 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Daniel J GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. McMillan ; ; COS, Rep Riley; LD, Rep Martini; Sr LA, Rep. Franks.22 filingsthrough 2018
Bryan CunninghamPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: LC Sen. Gregg ; ; Policy Advsr & LA, Sen Ensign; LA Rep LoBiondo.22 filingsthrough 2018
Paul D GrimmBg4 LLC16 filingsthrough 2013
Thomas LawlerLawler Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Tom Carper15 filingsthrough 2015
Mary Doyle KenkelAlliance OneCovered position: N/A13 filingsthrough 2012
Mark MenezesHunton Andrews Kurth LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Co.10 filingsthrough 2011
Rick GaryHunton Andrews Kurth LLP10 filingsthrough 2011
Sean CunninghamHunton Andrews Kurth LLPCovered position: Counsel, House Gov't. Reform & Oversight Co.10 filingsthrough 2011
Frederick EamesHunton Andrews Kurth LLPCovered position: Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Co.10 filingsthrough 2011
Kevin O'HanlonPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Rep Shuler: Intern, Staff Asst, Sys.Admnstr ; ; Rep Shuler: LA, LA-Budget,Sr. Advisor ; ; Rep Sutton: Deputy Chief of Staff/Scheduler8 filingsthrough 2015
Jon GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Dpty CoS & Policy Dir-Sen.Kyl/GOP Whip Ofc; Policy Cnsl-Sen Kyl/GOP Whip Ofc; Dpty Assoc Dir (Senate), OMB, Leg. Aff; Policy Cnsl/Analyst-Sen Kyl/Sen Rep Plcy Cmte; Leg.Cnsl, Rep Frelinghuysen; Law Clerk-DoT Amtrak Reform Cnsl; Intern-Rep Hefley.5 filingsthrough 2018
Thomas LawlerThe Accord GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant - Senator Tom Carper4 filingsthrough 2011
