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: large-public-power-council.
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.
76 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
51 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
26 filings
$850K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
8 filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
4 filings
$320K 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.
110th Congress
Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008
6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2899111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4669119th CongressFEMA Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5003115th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate advance refunding bonds.4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5351110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2192110th CongressA bill to establish a user fee for follow-up reinspections under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1114th CongressReserved for the Speaker.3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5931111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6117111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Patrick G. HeckCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senate Finance Comm:Chief Democratic Tax Counsel; Sen. Finance Comm.: Tax Counsel/Chief Investigative Counsel; House Committee on Ways and Means:Assistant Counsel.
30 filingsthrough 2024
Tracy A TolkVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (2005-2008); Senior Legislative Assistant, U.S. Representative Jim Davis (2001-2005)30 filingsthrough 2024
William Robert DavisCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director and Tax Policy Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed29 filingsthrough 2026
Stephen C FotisVan Ness Feldman, LLP25 filingsthrough 2026
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.2 filingsthrough 2026
Robert NordhausVan Ness Feldman, LLP2 filingsthrough 2008
Sarah VilmsLarge Public Power Council1 filingthrough 2026
