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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
36 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Utilities
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 29 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2830110th CongressTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and title 18, United States Code, to combat the crime of alien smuggling and related activities, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20086 filingsthrough 2008
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: gdf-suez-energy-north-america-inc.
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.
UTI
6 filings
$10K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
5 filings
$330K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$520K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$120K 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.
110th Congress
Coast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5984110th CongressClean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6258110th CongressCarbon Capture and Storage Early Deployment Act5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1982110th CongressUnited States Employee Ownership Bank Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1337111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 3619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 890111th 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
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.
9 filings
through 2015
Frank KatulakGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2015
Kevin CahillGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2016
Ricardo Lopez-GuerraStrategic Public Affairs6 filingsthrough 2016
Guy BradenGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2015
Robert A WilsonGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.Covered position: None4 filingsthrough 2013
Herman SchopmanGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
Stefaan SercuGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2013
Paul CavicchiGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2008
Frank DemailleGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2016
Sam HenryGdf Suez Energy North America, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 2 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
