45 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed May 10, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$8.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$250K
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.
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: pepco-holdings-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.
27 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
26 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
23 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
20 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
20 filings
$6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
15 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
10 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
10 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$1.5M 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.
113th Congress
Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2013
8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 394113th CongressMetal Theft Prevention Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 52113th CongressPromoting Efficiency and Savings in Government Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 570113th CongressClean Energy Race to the Top Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1659113th CongressFederal Buildings Energy Savings Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2075113th CongressElectric Transportation Advancement Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 259113th CongressEnergy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2962113th CongressSMART Grid Study Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 540113th CongressEnergy Efficient Government Technology Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 835113th CongressEnergy Assistance for American Families Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1020113th CongressAll-Of-The-Above Federal Building Energy Conservation Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1106113th CongressSensible Accounting to Value Energy Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1191113th CongressBetter Buildings Act of 20137 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.
through 2010
Stewart HarrisCarmen Group Incorporated7 filingsthrough 2010
PATRICK J MCCORMICK iiiHunton Andrews Kurth LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant General Counsel, FERC5 filingsthrough 2009
Frederick EamesHunton Andrews Kurth LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Paul Gillmor5 filingsthrough 2009
RAY B BILLUPS jrRay Billups5 filingsthrough 2009
David CarmenCarmen Group Incorporated1 filingthrough 2009
Patrick T CurrierHunton Andrews Kurth LLP1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 3 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
