196 filings from 12 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Jan 18, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$4.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4.7M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
88 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
48 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3683113th CongressTo amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to improve United States-Israel energy cooperation, and for other purposes.2 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.
Kent BurtonNational Environmental Strategies24 filingsthrough 2018
Marc HimmelsteinNational Environmental Strategies24 filingsthrough 2018
Michael ZehrHbw ResourcesCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Sen. Mitch McConnell; Legislative Director, US Sen. Mel Martinez; Legislative Director, US Sen. Tim Hutchinson23 filingsthrough 2017
Ted J TrimpaTrimpa Group, LLC Legislative Aide, Senator Nancy Kassebaum
The filings
The 20 most recent of 196 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: noble-energy.
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.
37 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
5 filings
$338K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$338K 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.
Covered position:
23 filingsthrough 2017
Jay CranfordCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: LC, Rep. Bob Barr, Jan 1997- Aug 1997;LA/Comm Director, Rep. Jim Gibbons Aug 1997-Sep 2000;Staff Director House Subcommittee on Energy May 2004-Mar 2006 ; ; Policy Advisor, Majority Leader Boehner Mar 2006-Dec 2006;Policy Advisor, Minority Leader Boehner Jan 2007-Dec 2010;Asst Policy Speaker Boehner Jan 2011-May 1, 201122 filingsthrough 2020
Robert SzaboVan Ness Feldman, LLP14 filingsthrough 2018
Stuart C HallVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, U.S. Representative Richard Baker (2007-2008)14 filingsthrough 2018
Tracy A TolkVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (2005-2008); Senior Legislative Assistant, U.S. Representative Jim Davis (2001-2005)14 filingsthrough 2018
Danielle MaurerFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Rules Committee ; ; Professional Staff Member, House Rules Committee ; ; Senior Floor Assistant, House Majority Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Republican Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Speaker ; ; Staff Assistant, Offie of Management and Budget ; ; Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB12 filingsthrough 2017
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson ; ; Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen12 filingsthrough 2017
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs12 filingsthrough 2017
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor12 filingsthrough 2017
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Aide, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Appropriations Coordinator, Senator McConnell ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell12 filingsthrough 2017
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education ; ; Special Assistant to the President ; ; Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House12 filingsthrough 2017
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Chip Pickering ; ; Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering12 filingsthrough 2017
Ben Lee McmakinVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Patty Murray (1996-2005)11 filingsthrough 2018
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence11 filingsthrough 2017
Michael FreemanCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel for Sen. Mike Lee, Oct. 2011- Jan. 2014; Counsel, House Natural Resources Committee - Jan. 2014 - May 201710 filingsthrough 2019
Jackson DunnFti Government AffairsCovered position: Aide, White House10 filingsthrough 2016
Aaron L SzaboCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Analyst, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2008 - 2014; Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 2014-2017; Senior Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality, 2017-20188 filingsthrough 2020
Mary LandrieuVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator (1997-2015)8 filingsthrough 2018
Michael J CatanzaroCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Communications Director, House Science Committee;Press Secretary, Rep. Dave Hobson;Communications Director Senate Environment and Public Works ; ; Associate Director for Policy, White House Council on Environmental Protection;Associate Deputy Administrator - Environmental Protection Agency;Deputy Staff Director, Senate Environmental & Public Works Committee ; ; Senior Policy Advisor, Speaker John Boehner7 filingsthrough 2017
