60 filings from 4 registrants · 2009–2018 · latest filed Jan 16, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.2M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
55 filings
$2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
32 filings
$974K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 41 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S.Con.Res. 21113th CongressA concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and the Federal approvals required for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline are in the national interest of the United States.12 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2883115th CongressPromoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act9 filingsthrough 2018
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: in-situ-oil-sands-alliance.
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.
14 filings
$690K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$440K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
10 filings
$325K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$330K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$270K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
2 filings
$30K 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
Northern Route Approval Act
9 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 21114th CongressA concurrent resolution authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1034113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1392113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1023112th CongressNo More Excuses Energy Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1938112th CongressNorth American-Made Energy Security Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 750112th CongressDefending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 909112th CongressRoadmap for America's Energy Future6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 228112th CongressDefending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 231112th CongressEPA Stationary Source Regulations Suspension Act6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 482112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Charles Black
Prime Policy Group
14 filingsthrough 2018
Robert BissenCannae Policy Group LLC9 filingsthrough 2018
Michael J BatesPrime Policy Group3 filingsthrough 2013
William SimmonsDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.3 filingsthrough 2012
Ronald KaufmanDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: Deputy Asst to the President for Personnel; Dep. Asst to thePresident for Politics and WH Political Director3 filingsthrough 2010
Mark DislerPrime Policy Group2 filingsthrough 2017
Casie Elizabeth DaughertyPrime Policy Group2 filingsthrough 2017
Samuel J WatsonCannae Policy Group LLC2 filingsthrough 2017
David ConoverDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: and Public Works.2 filingsthrough 2012
Blaine Marie NolanPrime Policy Group1 filingthrough 2017
