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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: liquid-energy-pipeline-association.
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.
1 filing
$32K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$32K 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
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2008
3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 275112th CongressPipeline Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 3856111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 649111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5656110th CongressTo repeal a requirement with respect to the procurement and acquisition of alternative fuels.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 219110th CongressA bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 152 North 5th Street in Laramie, Wyoming, as the "Gale W. McGee Post Office".2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2868111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2892111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3125111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 6008111th 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.
through 2011
Steven KramerLiquid Energy Pipeline Association3 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
