Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ml Strategies, LLC (on Behalf of Tenneco, Inc.)
District of Columbia
24 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2023 · latest filed Apr 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$540K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$540K
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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
17 filings
$400K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
13 filings
$260K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 1885 115th CongressAV START Act3 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- David Joseph Leiter Plurus Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Wendell Ford; Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator John Kerry; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy25 filingsthrough 2023
- Sarah C. Litke Plurus Strategies, LLC14 filingsthrough 2020
- Paul Eppler Plurus Strategies, LLC11 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 1 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: ml-strategies-llc-on-behalf-of-tenneco-inc.