Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Northern Star Generation
Texas
10 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2019 · latest filed Jan 8, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$330K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$330K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$330K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$330K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1119 115th CongressSENSE Act2 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- MARGARET CARAVELLI esq Balch & Bingham, LLPCovered position: Counsel, House Committee on Energy & Commerce; Chief Counsel, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology; Senior Clean Air Act Counsel, Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.12 filingsthrough 2019
- Karen Billups Balch & Bingham, LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.8 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: northern-star-generation.