74 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2024 · latest filed Dec 5, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$29.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$28.9M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$330K
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: marathon-oil-corporation.
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.
TAX
45 filings
$28.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
45 filings
$27.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
43 filings
$23.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
37 filings
$21.3M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
25 filings
$18.9M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
22 filings
$21.4M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
16 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
16 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
11 filings
$13.8M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
9 filings
$5.9M 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.
114th Congress
Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 594114th CongressWaters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 226114th CongressRegulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 20158 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.
Katherine AltshulerMarathon Oil CorporationCovered position: Senate Republican Policy Committee, Chairman Jon Kyl (R-AZ); Whip Office of Senator Don Nickles (R-OK)
18 filingsthrough 2024
Kevin J AveryMarathon Oil CorporationCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Mary Landrieu12 filingsthrough 2011
Patricia M RichardsMarathon Oil Corporation12 filingsthrough 2011
Michael E LeisterMarathon Oil Corporation10 filingsthrough 2011
David SearleMarathon Oil Corporation4 filingsthrough 2008
Amos HochsteinAmos HochsteinCovered position: Sr. Policy Advisor, House Cttee on Int'l Relations;4 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
