Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
National Oilwell Varco
Texas
18 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2015 · latest filed Jul 15, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
18 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
16 filings
$1.2M 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 48 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Hazen Marshall The Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Staff DirectorOffce of the Asst Maj. Ldr. (Sen. Nickles), Deputy CofSOffce of the Asst Maj. Ldr. (Sen. Nickles), EconomistU.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant17 filingsthrough 2014
- Rachel Jones Hensler The Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Office of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Leg. AssistantOffice of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Leg. AssistantOffice of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Leg. Correspondent3 filingsthrough 2015
- Don Nickles The Nickles Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 2 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-oilwell-varco.