43 filings from 2 registrants · 2011–2019 · latest filed Jan 22, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$2.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.3M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
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: linde-north-america-inc.
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
24 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
17 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
16 filings
$970K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
9 filings
$720K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
8 filings
$670K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
6 filings
$280K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
3 filings
$320K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
2 filings
$90K 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
New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011
11 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 527113th CongressHelium Stewardship Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1659112th CongressFuel Cell Industrial Vehicle Jobs Act of 201110 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2227112th CongressMedical Gas Safety Act9 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1090115th CongressTechnologies for Energy Security Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1321112th CongressPractical Energy Plan Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1863112th CongressNew Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2288113th CongressExpanding Carbon Capture through Enhanced Oil Recovery Act of 20147 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4721114th CongressAirport and Airway Extension Act of 20166 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.
through 2017
Michael McgowanLinde North America, Inc.15 filingsthrough 2014
Mark Andrew O'ConnellLinde North America, Inc.Covered position: Dep. Assoc. Administrator, Cong'l Affairs, EPA5 filingsthrough 2012
Donna Jo DenisonCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Legis. Asst to Sen Johnson & Sen Landrieu4 filingsthrough 2012
Benjamin RosenbaumCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Senator Gillibrand3 filingsthrough 2012
