Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.
Texas
58 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.7M
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
38 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$540K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1935 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
- H.R. 4213 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Jeffrey Miller Miller Strategies, LLC39 filingsthrough 2026
- Christine L Vaughn Vinson & Elkins LLP16 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 58 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: energy-transfer-partners-l-p.