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: environmental-working-group.
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.
ENV
37 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
35 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
31 filings
$4M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
29 filings
$3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
15 filings
$873K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
12 filings
$896K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
11 filings
$686K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
10 filings
$315K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$220K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$180K 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.
S. 463114th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit the paying of premium subsidies on policies based on the actual market price of an agricultural commodity at the time of harvest.11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 726116th CongressPersonal Care Products Safety Act10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 704114th CongressRFS Reform Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2609114th CongressAn original bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling standard for bioengineered foods, and for other purposes.10 filingsthrough 2016
S. 511114th CongressGenetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act10 filingsthrough 2016
S. 577114th CongressCorn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4075114th CongressCosmetic Modernization Amendments of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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.
through 2014
Stuart ChapmanThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Carolyn McCarthy; Chief of Staff, Representative Zack Space; Press Secretary, Senator Jay Rockefeller; Press Secretary, Representative Barbara Lee18 filingsthrough 2023
Gary PalmquistThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director: Rep. Dennis Cardoza, Rep. Bob Clement, Rep. Ken Bentsen16 filingsthrough 2023
Christine SigurdsonEnvironmental Working GroupCovered position: Policy Fellow, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Sen. Tom Harkin Chair)13 filingsthrough 2017
Edward KrenikBracewell LLPCovered position: Assoc. Admin. Cong. Affairs, EPA (2001-03); Leg. Director, Rep. Frelinghuysen (1994-2001); Leg. Asst./Assoc. Staff Rep. Dean Gallo (1989-94); Leg. Asst. Sen. Durenberger (1987-89)12 filingsthrough 2018
Christine HillEnvironmental Working Group11 filingsthrough 2016
Libby FoleyEnvironmental Working GroupCovered position: Intern, Sen. Mark Kirk11 filingsthrough 2015
Salo ZelermyerBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, DOE (2007-2009)10 filingsthrough 2016
Alex FormuzisEnvironmental Working GroupCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Jean Carnahan; Press Secretary, Sen. Kent Conrad; Deputy Communications Director & Communications Director, Sen. Frank Lautenberg10 filingsthrough 2016
Elizabeth Dee MartinBracewell LLP10 filingsthrough 2016
Scott Michael LavenderEnvironmental Working GroupCovered position: Intern, Staff Asst., L.C. & L.A., Sen. Herb Kohl10 filingsthrough 2015
Eric WashburnBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Daschle (2001-03); Staff Director, Senate EPW (Reid) (2001); Legislative Director, Sen. Daschle (1997-2001); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Daschle (1993-1997)9 filingsthrough 2016
Patricia GriffinNvg, LLC8 filingsthrough 2025
Joshua F. HurvitzNvg, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Anthony Weiner8 filingsthrough 2025
WILLIAM IRBY jrCapitol South, LLCCovered position: Press Secretary, Communications Director, and Legislative Aide to Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-KY8 filingsthrough 2024
William Christopher LamondThorn Run Partners8 filingsthrough 2022
Amber SinghNvg, LLC7 filingsthrough 2025
Bg WrightThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Professional Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations; Professional Staff, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations7 filingsthrough 2023
Sandra SchubertEnvironmental Working Group7 filingsthrough 2009
Michael BarberaAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon6 filingsthrough 2026
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen6 filingsthrough 2026
Mary Ellen KustinEnvironmental Working Group6 filingsthrough 2016
Alex RindlerEnvironmental Working GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant & Intern, Sen. John Kerry6 filingsthrough 2014
Sarah GranthamEnvironmental Working Group5 filingsthrough 2016
John David LeeBracewell LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Reade WilsonEnvironmental Working Group4 filingsthrough 2016
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 18 of 37 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
