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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
52 filings
$9.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
49 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 395 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20205 filingsthrough 2020
S. 371114th CongressA bill to remove a limitation on a prohibition relating to permits for discharges incidental to normal operation of vessels.5 filingsthrough 2016
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: natural-resources-defense-council.
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
41 filings
$8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
34 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
32 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
28 filings
$6.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
28 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
27 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
26 filings
$6M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
26 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
23 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
20 filings
$4.1M 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.
110th Congress
Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5401117th CongressNuclear Waste Task Force Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1790116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 20204 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2461116th CongressArctic Refuge Protection Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20184 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.
Adam FischerWaxman StrategiesCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Majority), 2019-2022
Jacqueline CohenWaxman StrategiesCovered position: House Committee on Energy and Commerce staff, having served as Chief Counsel from 2017-2021, Senior Counsel 2013-2017, and Counsel from 2009-20137 filingsthrough 2024
Karen WaylandNatural Resources Defense CouncilCovered position: Science Fellow, Sen. Harry Reid, 2001-20026 filingsthrough 2008
John LoyNatural Resources Defense CouncilCovered position: Staff/Legis Asst, Rep. Adam Smith, 5/01-9/076 filingsthrough 2008
Michael GooNatural Resources Defense CouncilCovered position: Counsel, Enviro/Public Works Cmte, 9/05-9/075 filingsthrough 2008
Michael GooWaxman StrategiesCovered position: Chief Counsel for Energy & Environment, House Energy & Commerce Committee, (Minority), Senior Policy Advisor/detailee, US Department of Energy, Associate Administrator, US EPA, Staff Director & Chief Counsel, Select Committee on Energy Independence2 filingsthrough 2022
