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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
72 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 178 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2990110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make geothermal heat pump systems eligible for the energy credit and the residential energy efficient property credit.10 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 259113th CongressEnergy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act8 filingsthrough 2014
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: national-ground-water-association.
$610K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
CAW
66 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
43 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
38 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
38 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
36 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
33 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
21 filings
$2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
15 filings
$920K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
15 filings
$720K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
12 filings
$588K 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.
113th Congress
Sustainable Energy Act
8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 362113th CongressGeothermal Exploration and Technology Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1642114th CongressSavings Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1175113th CongressFRESHER Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1921113th CongressFracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2127113th CongressTo prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2513113th CongressFracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 524113th CongressTo amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to disapprove a permit after it has been issued by the Secretary of the Army under section 404 of such Act.7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 761113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1084112th CongressFracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2766111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1616113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
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.
13 filings
through 2011
Kevin Brent MccrayNational Ground Water Association13 filingsthrough 2011
Gary AndresDutko Worldwide, LLC13 filingsthrough 2010
