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-rural-electric-cooperative-association-nreca.
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
68 filings
$52.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
68 filings
$52.2M on those filings
Retirement
RET
68 filings
$52.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
68 filings
$52.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
68 filings
$52.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
68 filings
$52.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
67 filings
$51M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
65 filings
$48.9M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
63 filings
$46.1M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
57 filings
$45.6M 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.
115th Congress
21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act
11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1274115th CongressState, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1443115th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 173115th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 201711 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.
Covered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Lee Terry
63 filingsthrough 2023
Paul GutierrezNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)Covered position: New Mexico State Executive Director, USDA56 filingsthrough 2026
Julie BarkemeyerNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Joe BacaSenior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Joe BacaLegislative Assistant, Rep. Bud CramerSenior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bud CramerLegislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln24 filingsthrough 2017
Abbie LaugtugNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)24 filingsthrough 2017
Brian CaveyNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)Covered position: Legislative Director - Senator Max BaucusLegislative Assistant - Senator Max Baucus24 filingsthrough 2016
Biljana KaumayaNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)23 filingsthrough 2022
Carol WhitmanNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)23 filingsthrough 2014
Jason PitcockPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Counsel, House Subcommitee on Capital Markets20 filingsthrough 2015
Jason CookeNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)19 filingsthrough 2026
Katie CulletonNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)19 filingsthrough 2026
Laura Marshall-SchepisNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)19 filingsthrough 2013
Kelly McgrathPorterfield, Fettig & Sears, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, House Financial Services Committee17 filingsthrough 2022
Samantha McdonaldNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)16 filingsthrough 2022
Christine HeggemNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)Covered position: Professional Staff- Senate Appropriations Cmte, Sen. CochranLegislative Aide - Senator Conrad Burns16 filingsthrough 2014
Glenn EnglishNational Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Nreca)16 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 24 of 55 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
