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: national-hydropower-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.
DEF
45 filings
$855K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$225K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
12 filings
$180K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
12 filings
$180K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
11 filings
$765K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$30K 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
Water Resources Development Act of 2013
9 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1521118th CongressCommunity and Hydropower Improvement Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 724115th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Power Act to modernize authorizations for necessary hydropower approvals.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2786115th CongressTo amend the Federal Power Act with respect to the criteria and process to qualify as a qualifying conduit hydropower facility.7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2872115th CongressPromoting Hydropower Development at Existing Nonpowered Dams Act7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3043115th CongressHydropower Policy Modernization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3256115th CongressRIVER Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1029115th CongressA bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to exempt certain small hydroelectric power projects that are applying for relicensing under the Federal Power Act from the licensing requirements of that Act.7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1036115th CongressMarine Energy Act7 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.
41 filings
through 2018
Charles R SensibaTroutman Pepper Locke, LLP37 filingsthrough 2026
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)37 filingsthrough 2018
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 05 Com Dir Pres Advisory on Fed Tax Reform28 filingsthrough 2015
Shelley Nan FidlerVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Principal Deputy, WH Climate Change Task Force (1998-2000)Sr. Advisor, Department of Energy (1998-2000)Chief of Staff, Council of Environmental Quality (1995-98)Staff Director, House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power (1993-95)26 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 87-08 Counsel House Nat. Resources Cmte24 filingsthrough 2018
Stuart C HallVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, U.S. Representative Richard Baker (2001-2008)18 filingsthrough 2019
Robert SzaboVan Ness Feldman, LLP17 filingsthrough 2018
Michael A SwigerVan Ness Feldman, LLP17 filingsthrough 2018
Richard A AgnewVan Ness Feldman, LLP17 filingsthrough 2018
Tracy A TolkVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Rep. Jay Inslee (2005-2008); Senior Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Jim Davis (2001-2005)15 filingsthrough 2018
Roger S BallentineGreen Strategies, Inc.15 filingsthrough 2016
Charles SensibaVan Ness Feldman, LLP14 filingsthrough 2018
Matthew AllenNational Hydropower AssociationCovered position: Director of Legislative Affairs13 filingsthrough 2026
Tim UrbanBracewell LLP13 filingsthrough 2025
Rebecca BloodWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: Leg. Aide; US House & US Senate13 filingsthrough 2016
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2016
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2011
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Intern - Rep. Walter Jones (Summer 1995)12 filingsthrough 2011
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Labrenda Garrett-NelsonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 24 of 62 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
