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-wildlife-federation.
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.
BUD
49 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
46 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
36 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
28 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
15 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
15 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
10 filings
$890K on those filings
Insurance
INS
10 filings
$830K on those filings
Animals
ANI
7 filings
$743K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$930K 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.
118th Congress
RISEE Act of 2023
9 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 596113th CongressPublic Lands Renewable Energy Development Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 996113th CongressInvasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 279113th CongressPublic Land Renewable Energy Development Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2773117th CongressRecovering America’s Wildlife Act of 20225 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1153113th CongressInvasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1351118th CongressSave Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act4 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2372117th CongressRecovering America’s Wildlife Act of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20144 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.
11 filingsthrough 2025
Ben KnuthNational Wildlife Federation10 filingsthrough 2026
Patrick FitzgeraldNational Wildlife Federation5 filingsthrough 2010
Jeff BurtonMaven Advocacy Partners LLCCovered position: Director of Outreach for Republican Whip Eric Cantor; Chief of Staff for Congressman Mike Conaway4 filingsthrough 2025
Peter UmhoferE2 Strategies, LLC4 filingsthrough 2019
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings ; ; Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf ; ; Graduate Fellow, US Department of State ; ; Intern, Senator John Seymour4 filingsthrough 2013
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee4 filingsthrough 2013
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Putnam ; ; Policy Director, House Republican Conference ; ; Staff Director, Republican Policy Committee ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Felix Grucci ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Jon Kyl ; ; Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack4 filingsthrough 2013
Chelsea HendersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Polciy Advisor, Senator John Warner ; ; Senior Prof. Staff, Environment and Public Works Committee4 filingsthrough 2013
Weldon RougeauBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman William Jefferson4 filingsthrough 2010
