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: portland-general-electric.
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.
UTI
83 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
80 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
71 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
67 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
63 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
40 filings
$3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
40 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
28 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
23 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
17 filings
$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.
S. 1602116th CongressBEST Act14 filingsthrough 2020
S. 674116th CongressClean Corridors Act of 201914 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 201714 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2096116th CongressEnergy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2164116th CongressGreen Bus Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2616116th CongressClean Corridors Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2636116th CongressSmart Cities and Communities Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2906116th CongressClean Commute for Kids Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1142116th CongressEnergy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1750116th CongressClean School Bus Act of 201913 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1939116th CongressMoving FIRST Act13 filingsthrough 2020
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 2023
Martin E DoernPortland General ElectricCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Doc Hastings22 filingsthrough 2013
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Sen. Byron Dorgan - Asst. Chief of Staff, Leg, Assistant, Dep. Chief of Staff; Dept. of Energy - Deputy Director of Scheduling & Advance15 filingsthrough 2026
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLP14 filingsthrough 2026
Laurie PurpuroK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Energy12 filingsthrough 2025
Scott J. GelbmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, Senator Chuck Schumer8 filingsthrough 2026
Jamie PainterPortland General ElectricCovered position: Senior Field Representative - Rep. Earl Blumenauer7 filingsthrough 2026
Valerie WestThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Natural Resources Director to Senator Gordon Smith; Professional Staff to the House Natural Resources Committee; Deputy Director of Cong. Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation7 filingsthrough 2022
Robert Irvine Van HeuvelenThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff to Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)7 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew LeggettK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Min Ch Cnsl, Sen Energy & Natural Resources Comm; Maj Ch Cnsl, Sen Environment & Public Works Comm; Maj Deputy Ch Cnsl, Sen Environment & Public Works Comm; Policy Cnsl, Sen Republican Policy Comm; Leg Cnsl, Rep. Tim Murphy; Leg Asst, House Ag Comm6 filingsthrough 2025
Sania RadcliffePortland General Electric6 filingsthrough 2024
Brian SpakPortland General Electric6 filingsthrough 2015
Anissa RognessVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Dir. of Economic Development to Senator Conrad4 filingsthrough 2013
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Democratic Chief Counsel and Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance3 filingsthrough 2025
Ryan CarneyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom MacArthur; Chief of Staff, Rep. Bryan Steil; Staff Director, House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth; Senior Advisor, Committee on House Administration2 filingsthrough 2025
Scott AliferisK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2024
John NorthingtonK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Advisor to the Director - Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Department of Interior2 filingsthrough 2024
David SkillmanK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Dep CoS, Counsel Rep. Earl Blumenauer1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 16 of 22 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
