43 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 17, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
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.
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: gas-processors-association.
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.
7 filings
$270K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$90K 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.
113th Congress
Water Resources Development Act of 2013
3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 275112th CongressPipeline Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 3856111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
West Front Strategies LLC
Covered position: Special Asst. to the Homeland Security Director ; Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, EOP
8 filingsthrough 2016
Michael PlatnerVan Ness Feldman, LLP7 filingsthrough 2014
Stuart C HallVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Richard Baker 2001-086 filingsthrough 2014
Lisa E EpifaniVan Ness Feldman, LLP6 filingsthrough 2013
Francine E FriedmanHunton Andrews Kurth LLPCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Patrick T CurrierHunton Andrews Kurth LLP5 filingsthrough 2011
Ashley DavisBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst. to the Homeland Security Director ; ; Dep. Drctr of Management and Administration, EOP4 filingsthrough 2014
Cj ZaneBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Don Young2 filingsthrough 2013
Malloy McdanielBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Policy Advisor to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) ; ; Whip Liaison, Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell ; ; Republican Floor Assistant to Senator Trent Lott2 filingsthrough 2013
JOSEPH STANKO jrHunton Andrews Kurth LLPCovered position: COUNSEL, HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
