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: hearth-patio-barbecue-association.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
TAX
57 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
35 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$404K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
10 filings
$154K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
10 filings
$154K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
10 filings
$154K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$180K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
1 filing
$20K 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.
114th Congress
North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3761113th CongressTo properly define and distinguish between decorative hearth products and vented hearth heaters.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1094111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1643111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6089119th CongressBiomanufacturing Excellence Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1945119th CongressEnergy Choice Act4 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3161115th CongressBTU Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1480115th CongressBTU Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1946114th CongressTax Relief Extension Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3107110th CongressRenewable Energy Tax Parity Act of 20074 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.
24 filingsthrough 2017
Tracy HammondPolsinelli PC19 filingsthrough 2017
W Allan CagnoliHearth, Patio & Barbecue Association13 filingsthrough 2012
Christopher ConnerHearth, Patio & Barbecue AssociationCovered position: Manager, Policy, Government Affairs11 filingsthrough 2026
