117 filings from 6 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Mar 26, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$5.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
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: lg-e-and-ku-energy-llc.
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.
4 filings
$120K 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
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.
1 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
S. 482112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
S.J.Res. 37112th CongressA joint resolution to disapprove a rule promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency relating to emission standards for certain steam generating units.1 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 4572111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4753111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
26 filingsthrough 2022
Joshua C ZiveBracewell LLP7 filingsthrough 2016
Jeffrey HolmsteadBracewell LLPCovered position: Asst. Admin, Air & Radiation, EPA (2001-05); Assoc. White House Counsel (1989-93)7 filingsthrough 2016
Scott H SegalBracewell LLP7 filingsthrough 2016
Edward KrenikBracewell LLPCovered position: Assoc. Admin. Cong. Affairs, EPA (2001-03); Leg. Director, Rep. Frelinghuysen (1994-2001); Leg. Asst./Assoc. Staff Rep. Dean Gallo (1989-94); Leg. Asst. Sen. Durenberger (1987-89)7 filingsthrough 2016
Curtis BeaulieuBracewell LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel Sen. Finance Committee (2011-2014); Tax Counsel, Sen. Hatch (2008-2011); Tax Counsel, Rep. McCrery (2007-2008); Counsel, Sen. Johnson (2006-2007); Leg. Correspondent Sen. Vitter (2005-2006)7 filingsthrough 2016
Gordon Hunter Hunter BatesRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellChief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee7 filingsthrough 2016
Elizabeth Dee MartinBracewell LLP7 filingsthrough 2016
Eric WashburnBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Daschle (2001-03); Staff Director, Senate EPW (Reid) (2001); Legislative Director, Sen. Daschle (1997-2001); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Daschle (1993-1997)6 filingsthrough 2016
Kristy Ann BulleitHunton Andrews Kurth LLP3 filingsthrough 2019
Elizabeth AldridgeHunton Andrews Kurth LLP3 filingsthrough 2019
Gordon Hunter BatesAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Sen. McConnell, 2000-02; Legal Cnsl, Sen. McConnell, 1999-00;
Chief Cnsl, Senate Rules Committee, 1997-99.3 filingsthrough 2018
G Hunter BatesBates Capitol Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellLegal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellChief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee3 filingsthrough 2012
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg cnsl to Rep Northup, 1999; leg cnsl to Rep Inglis, 1997-99; legal intern to Spkr Gingrich, 1996; leg aideto Sen Coverdell, 1993-942 filingsthrough 2020
Chase W HienemanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Int, Sen. McConnell, May-June 2010.1 filingthrough 2017
Lauren O'BrienRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisLegislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisLegislative Correspondent, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisStaff Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff DavisIntern, Office of Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner1 filingthrough 2015
Geoff DavisRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: U.S. Representative1 filingthrough 2015
Hunter BatesLG&E and Ku Energy LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee ; ; Legal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 16 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
