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: sabic-innovative-plastics-us-llc.
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.
AUT
57 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
42 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
41 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
40 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
38 filings
$4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
13 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
2 filings
$380K 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.
112th Congress
Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2011
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1523111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.J.Res. 59115th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air Act".4 filingsthrough 2017
S.J.Res. 28115th CongressA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency relating to accidental release prevention requirements of risk management programs under the Clean Air Act.4 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 4341111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6228110th CongressBan Poisonous Additives Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1556113th CongressFairness in International Taxation Act3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5973112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1321114th CongressMicrobead-Free Waters Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4800113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5033113th CongressBan Poisonous Additives Act of 20142 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.
9 filingsthrough 2026
William Brandon FarrisSabic Innovative Plastics US LLC7 filingsthrough 2018
David LesstrangSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1996 -2001: Dep. COS and LD, Rep. Jerry Lewis; Jan. 2005- Jan. 2007: Dep. Staff Dir., Com. on Approps; Jan. 2007-Jan. 2011: Professional Staff, House Com.on Approps; Jan. 2011-Aug. 2018: Clerk, Sub. on Interior, Environ. and Related Agencies.4 filingsthrough 2024
Peter D RobertsonSquire Patton Boggs1 filingthrough 2023
Bradford EllisonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: May 2008-July 2008: Intern to Rep. Al Green (TX); July 2008 - August 2008 and June - August 2010: Intern to Rep. James Clyburn (SC)1 filingthrough 2023
Thomas S AndrewsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2009-2013:SA/LC and Sr SA, Rep. John Boehner; 2013-2015:SA to Speaker John Boehner; 2015-2018: Dir of Member Services, Speaker Paul Ryan; 2018- 2021: SA to President for Leg Affairs, White House1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 4 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
