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: nisource-inc.
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
70 filings
$10.8M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
59 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
58 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
54 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
47 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
33 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
26 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$947K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$797K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$560K 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.
114th Congress
A bill to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to prohibit the Secretary of Energy from prescribing a final rule amending the efficiency standards for residential non-weatherized gas furnaces or mobile home furnaces until an analysis has been completed, and for other purposes.
9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1900113th CongressNatural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2218113th CongressCoal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1116th CongressFor the People Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20168 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2877113th CongressTo prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20148 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Patrick OrthNisource, IncCovered position: L.A. to Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, L.D. to Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio, L.C. and Staff Assistant to Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio30 filingsthrough 2026
Courtney JohnsonAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Research Assistant, House Energy & Commerce Committee27 filingsthrough 2024
Alex OehlerNisource, IncCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant to Rep. Wally Herger25 filingsthrough 2015
Michael Kenneth HenryAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Professional Staff, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee22 filingsthrough 2023
Patrick RaffanielloRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster16 filingsthrough 2020
Timothy Lloyd HanfordRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means16 filingsthrough 2020
Jason MullerNisource, Inc16 filingsthrough 2019
Michael Kenneth HenryAcorn Consulting12 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth GoldingNisource, IncCovered position: Special Asst (DOE) - 3/08-1/0910 filingsthrough 2014
Carl LevanderNisource, Inc6 filingsthrough 2020
Maria Pereyra-VeraNisource, IncCovered position: Special Assistant, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy5 filingsthrough 2026
Robert D. LehmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: CoS Portman 11-15; CoS OMB 06-07; CoS USTR 05-06; CoS Rep Portman 03-05; CoS Rep Combest 93-03; LD/LA Rep Combest; Lobby Spec. House Clerk 88-895 filingsthrough 2019
Timothy MartinWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GC/Senior LA Rep. Tipton (14-15); LD Rep. Davis (15-17)4 filingsthrough 2019
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates4 filingsthrough 2008
Tom QuinnVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Director,Congressman Peter Visclosky4 filingsthrough 2008
Grace BelloneAlpine Group Partners, LLC.1 filingthrough 2022
Jonathan Raphael YarowskyWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GCHouseJudCom82-95; SACPres95-981 filingthrough 2019
Greg MeansAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Dennis Eckart1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 16 of 22 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
