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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: flint-hills-resources-lp.
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.
CAW
4 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
3 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Torts
TOR
1 filing
$810K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$810K 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.
H.R. 1787111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 977111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 272111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 3268111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 386111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 447111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6330110th CongressPrevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6899110th CongressComprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2008
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.
