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: el-paso-corporation.
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.
NAT
24 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
12 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
10 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$811K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$190K 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
To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from oil and gas development sources, and for other purposes.
9 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20119 filingsthrough 2012
S. 228112th CongressDefending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act9 filingsthrough 2012
S. 231112th CongressEPA Stationary Source Regulations Suspension Act9 filingsthrough 2012
S. 275112th CongressPipeline Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 20119 filingsthrough 2012
S. 482112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20119 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S. 672111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1935111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3269111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 977111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 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.
Alpine Group Partners, LLC.
Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Blanche Lincoln
11 filingsthrough 2010
Bob MossBob Moss Associates8 filingsthrough 2012
Fiji C GeorgeEl Paso CorporationCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2010
CARL GIST jrTch Group, LLCCovered position: Former LA to Cong. John Barrow (D-GA)6 filingsthrough 2010
Alex CooperTch Group, LLCCovered position: GOP Professional Staff-House Committee, on Oversight and Government Reform4 filingsthrough 2012
Pete ErnautR&R Partners, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2010
Paul A HorowitzBaker & Mckenzie, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Steven H BeckerBaker & Mckenzie, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Sarah Katherine GainerEl Paso Corporation2 filingsthrough 2010
William NixonPolicy Impact Communications, Inc.1 filingthrough 2009
John Drew HiattPolicy Impact Communications, Inc.1 filingthrough 2009
John M HaddowPolicy Impact Communications, Inc.1 filingthrough 2009
Matthew SalmonPolicy Impact Communications, Inc.Covered position: U.S. Representative from Arizona's 1st District1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 7 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
