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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
31 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$1.3M 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. 5771114th CongressConserving Our Reefs and Livelihoods Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
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: geothermal-exchange-organization-geo.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
Health Care Options Act of 2017
5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5771113th CongressTax Increase Prevention Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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.
Covered position: Tax Counsel Sen. Finance Committee (2011-2014); Tax Counsel Sen. Hatch (2008-2011), Tax Counsel Rep. McCrery (2007-2008); Counsel Sen. Johnson (2006-2007), Leg. Correspondent Sen Vitter (2005-2006)
9 filingsthrough 2017
Tim UrbanBracewell LLP4 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle SpencerBracewell LLP4 filingsthrough 2026
Anna KarakitsosBracewell LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Sen. Environment and Public Works Committee (2008-2009), Research Assistant/Office Manager, Sen. EPW Committee (2011-2012), Professional Staff Member, Sen. EPW Committee (2012-2016)3 filingsthrough 2018
Liam P DonovanBracewell LLP2 filingsthrough 2018
Lisa M JaegerBracewell LLPCovered position: Assoc Dir Cabinet Affairs, White House (1992)1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 4 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
