10 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 19, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$320K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$320K
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$320K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
8 filings
$260K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2766111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 469111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5062111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
C Kyle SimpsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP10 filingsthrough 2010
Jack JacobsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP10 filingsthrough 2010
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: energy-research-coalition.
6 filings
$160K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
5 filings
$140K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 5607111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3258111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3497111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3509111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5146110th CongressInvest in Energy Security Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6067110th CongressInvest in Energy Independence Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2598110th CongressStrategic Petroleum Reserve Fill Suspension and Consumer Protection Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3473111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3663111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
