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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$870K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$680K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2191110th CongressVolunteer Pilot Organization Protection Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Andrea J GrantDla Piper LLP (US)9 filingsthrough 2017
Brian BallardBallard Partners7 filingsthrough 2026
Hunter MorgenBallard PartnersCovered position: Policy Advisor, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. State Dept. (2017);Deputy Director, Office of Trade & Manufacturing Policy, WH (2017-2018);Special Assistant to the President, Office of the Senior Advisor for Policy, WH (2018-2020)7 filingsthrough 2026
David A WeissDla Piper LLP (US)6 filingsthrough 2009
Jeff Miller
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: irving-oil-ltd.
fees reported
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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.
ENG
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$440K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 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.
1 filing
through 2009
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Ballard Partners
Covered position: Former Member US Congress
5 filingsthrough 2026
Steven ShimbergDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Staff Dir, Sen Cmte on Environment & Public Wrks3 filingsthrough 2008
Steven R PhillipsDla Piper LLP (US)2 filingsthrough 2008
Gary J KleinDla Piper LLP (US)1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 3 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
