44 filings from 2 registrants · 2016–2022 · latest filed Jan 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$760K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$760K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
43 filings
$760K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1627116th CongressSteel Industry Preservation Act14 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4758117th CongressSteel Industry Preservation Act8 filingsthrough 2022
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging, Sr. Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson, Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen28 filingsthrough 2022
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs28 filingsthrough 2022
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham, Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor28 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: lightning-renewable-energy-llc.
115th Congress
Steel Industry Preservation Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 262115th CongressSteel Industry Preservation Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2923116th CongressInclusive Prosperity Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2993116th CongressSteel Industry Preservation Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5002114th CongressSteel Industry Preservation Act3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2823114th CongressSteel Industry Preservation Act3 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Tyler Stephens
Fierce Government Relations
Covered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
28 filingsthrough 2022
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst., Sen. McConnell, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. McConnell, Legislative Aide, Sen. McConnell, Legislative Asst,Sen. McConnell,Appropriations Coordinator, Sen. McConnell,Sr. Legislative Asst, Sen. McConnell,Chief of Staff, Sen. McConnell28 filingsthrough 2022
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House28 filingsthrough 2022
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker, Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Pickering, Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering28 filingsthrough 2022
Eric ZulkoskyFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Director of Member Services, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, LD, Rep. Scalise, LA, Rep. Scalise, LA, Sen. Johanns, LC, Sen. Johanns, LC Sen. Dole, Mail Manager, Sen. Dole, Staff Assistant, Sen. Dole22 filingsthrough 2022
David Patrick RobertsonConfluence Government RelationsCovered position: Deputy to the Chief of Staff, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Leg. Aide & Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Rockefeller17 filingsthrough 2022
Danielle MaurerFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Asst,House Rules Cmte, Professional Staff Member,House Rules Cmte, Sr. Floor Asst,House Maj. Leader, Director Member Services,House Min. Leader, Director Member Services,Speaker of the House, Staff Asst,OMB, Deputy to the Assoc. Director,OMB8 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 10 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
