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: independent-petroleum-association-of-america.
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.
NAT
68 filings
$18.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
62 filings
$11.3M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
53 filings
$15.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
47 filings
$13.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
40 filings
$9.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
32 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
18 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
17 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
16 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Banking
BAN
16 filings
$2.8M 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.
112th Congress
Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013
11 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1229112th CongressPutting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act11 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1230112th CongressRestarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act11 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1231112th CongressReversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act11 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1473112th CongressDepartment of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 201111 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 909112th CongressRoadmap for America's Energy Future11 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 201111 filingsthrough 2012
S. 493112th CongressSBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 201111 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1204112th CongressTo amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from oil and gas development sources, and for other purposes.10 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1228112th CongressNatural Resources Restoration Act of 201110 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 261112th CongressNo New Drilling Act of 201110 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.
Samantha McdonaldIndependent Petroleum Association of America25 filingsthrough 2018
Jason SchendleAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Legislative Counsel, Sen. Mary Landrieu23 filingsthrough 2024
Lauren BazelAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Senior Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. John Kerry; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. William Cowan23 filingsthrough 2024
Michael Sean HaywoodAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: LA, Senator Jim Bunning. LA, Rep. Dave Camp.23 filingsthrough 2024
Matthew KelloggIndependent Petroleum Association of America21 filingsthrough 2015
Michael Kenneth HenryAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Professional Staff, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee18 filingsthrough 2023
Susan GinsbergIndependent Petroleum Association of America18 filingsthrough 2012
Kristen LingleyIndependent Petroleum Association of America17 filingsthrough 2014
Courtney JohnsonAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Research Assistant, House Energy & Commerce Committee15 filingsthrough 2024
Nicole DaigleIndependent Petroleum Association of America15 filingsthrough 2014
Patrick John O'NeillPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2012
Steven EichenauerPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2012
Paul M SnyderPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2012
Joseph O'NeillPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2012
