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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
106 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
81 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20197 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3159115th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20197 filingsthrough 2018
Ben BarnesBen Barnes Group LP66 filingsthrough 2025
Patsy Lee ThomassonBen Barnes Group LP63 filingsthrough 2025
Glenton Thomas MandigoStrategic Marketing Innovations37 filingsthrough 2025
Mark GillmanStrategic Marketing Innovations35 filingsthrough 2026
Lynnel RuckertBold Strategies, LLCCovered position: Clerk, House Energy and Commerce Committee; Scheduler, LA, Acting COS, Rep. David Vitter; Deputy COS, Rep. Bobby Jindal; Clerk of House; COS, Rep. Steve Scalise.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 243 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: huntsman-corporation.
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.
TRD
74 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
58 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
44 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
19 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
17 filings
$293K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
7 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$780K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
5 filings
$780K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$780K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$140K 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.
115th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3229115th CongressTo protect the safety of judges by extending the authority of the Judicial Conference to redact sensitive information contained in their financial disclosure reports, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2018
S. 385115th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4432117th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4506116th CongressHome Energy Savings Act3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2021
S. 1298117th CongressClean Energy for America Act2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 6157116th CongressTransparency for Student Veterans Act2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 7617116th CongressDefense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 20212 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2588116th CongressHome Energy Savings Act2 filingsthrough 2020
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.
31 filingsthrough 2026
Kent CapertonBen Barnes Group LP30 filingsthrough 2016
Warren PayneMayer Brown LLPCovered position: U.S. Int'l Trade Analyst, 2002-05; Economic Advisor, 2004-07; House Ways & Means Committee: Trade Economist, 2007-09; Sr. Economist/Trade Advisor, 2008-11; Chief Economist, 2011-12; Policy Director, 2012-1527 filingsthrough 2026
Wyeth WiedemanBen Barnes Group LP27 filingsthrough 2016
Scott MoorheadBen Barnes Group LP24 filingsthrough 2016
Kyle RuckertBold Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Vitter, 2004-2015; Leg. Dir. Senator Vitter, 1999-2003; Leg Assistant, Congressman Thornberry, 1997-1999.23 filingsthrough 2023
Bryan MaxwellStrategic Marketing InnovationsCovered position: Senior Defense Policy Advisor, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen; Military Legislative Assistant, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen; Military Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dan Maffei; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Hall; Staff Assistant, Rep. John Hall22 filingsthrough 2026
TIMOTHY J KEELER esqMayer Brown LLPCovered position: USTR, Chief of Staff, 2006-09; U.S. Treasury Department, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, 2001-06; Presidential Transition Team, Policy Analyst, 2000-01; Senate Finance Committee, Professional Staff, 1997-200014 filingsthrough 2024
Kevin GundersenHuntsman CorporationCovered position: Staff Director, Subcmte on Counterterrorism and Intelligence; Senior Professional Staff Member, Subcmte on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Tech; Professional Staff Member, US House Committee on Homeland Security13 filingsthrough 2019
Sam GeduldigCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Coalitions, House Financial Services Committee 2001-2003; Senior Advisor, Majority Whip Roy Blunt 2003-20067 filingsthrough 2019
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Majority Leader Boehner Mar 2006-Dec 2006; Policy Advisor, Minority Leader Boehner Jan 2007-Dec 2010; Asst Policy Speaker Boehner Jan 2011-May 1, 20117 filingsthrough 2019
Mike NielsenCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Robert F. Bennett 1999-2001; Staff Director Subcommittee Financial Institutions 2002-06; Senior Policy Advisor Sen. Robert F. Bennett 2007-107 filingsthrough 2019
Douglas SchwartzCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senate Republican Conference 2012-2014; Senior Advisor, Senator John Thune 20147 filingsthrough 2019
John StipicevicCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Floor Operations, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, 2011-2014; Deputy Chief of Staff for Floor and Member Services, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 2014-20157 filingsthrough 2019
Katie Rae MitchellCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Scheduler, Rep. Paul Cook - Jan 2014-Nov 2014; Intern, Rep. Devin Nunes - Aug 2013-Dec 20137 filingsthrough 2019
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Sen. Mike Lee, Oct. 2011- Jan. 2014; Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee - Jan. 2014 - May 20177 filingsthrough 2019
Juliane C SullivanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Senior Appropriations Adviser, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, 1999-2003; Senior Legislative Assistant, Appropriations, Rep Anne Northup, 1997-1999; Legislative Assistant, Rep Ed Whitfield 1994-19977 filingsthrough 2019
Mike MeroneyHuntsman Corporation5 filingsthrough 2009
John FluhartyHuntsman Corporation4 filingsthrough 2008
John DemingHuntsman Corporation4 filingsthrough 2008
Patrick MalloyStrategic Marketing Innovations3 filingsthrough 2019
Aaron L SzaboCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Analyst, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2008 - 2014; Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 2014-2017; Senior Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality, 2017-20183 filingsthrough 2019
Oliver IrelandHuntsman Corporation3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 15 of 29 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
