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: salt-river-project.
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.
NAT
139 filings
$17.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
123 filings
$15.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
112 filings
$17.4M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
24 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
22 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
21 filings
$4M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
15 filings
$332K on those filings
Banking
BAN
8 filings
$790K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$780K on those filings
Retirement
RET
3 filings
$410K 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.
115th Congress
National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act of 2017
16 filingsthrough 2018
S. 930115th CongressWestern Area Power Administration Transparency Act16 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1967115th CongressBureau of Reclamation Pumped Storage Hydropower Development Act15 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 201714 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1038113th CongressPublic Power Risk Management Act of 201314 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2898114th CongressWestern Water and American Food Security Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2016
S. 508114th CongressFLAME Act Amendments of 201513 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1065111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 890111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4723115th CongressHualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 201712 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1770115th CongressHualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 201712 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.
62 filingsthrough 2023
Robert J DotchinThe Advocacy Group51 filingsthrough 2020
George A RamonasThe Advocacy Group49 filingsthrough 2020
Lane DicksonSalt River Project35 filingsthrough 2017
Anna KarakitsosBracewell LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2008-2009), Research Assistant/Office Manager, Senate EPW Committee (2011-2012), Professional Staff Member, Senate EPW Committee (2012-2016)33 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey HolmsteadBracewell LLPCovered position: Asst. Admin, Air & Radiation, EPA (2001-05); Assoc. White House Counsel (1989-93)32 filingsthrough 2016
Bob HolmesNexxus Consulting, LLC30 filingsthrough 2026
Ana Mak MaNexxus Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Raul Grijalva Chief of Staff, Small Business Administration Chief of Staff, Department of Labor30 filingsthrough 2026
Robert J CoganSalt River ProjectCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Diane Black30 filingsthrough 2026
Nicolas QuinonesSalt River Project29 filingsthrough 2023
Eric WashburnBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Daschle (2001-03); Staff Director, Senate EPW (Reid) (2001); Legislative Director, Sen. Daschle (1997-2001); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Daschle (1993-1997)5 filingsthrough 2016
Holt EdwardsBracewell LLPCovered position: Office of Sen. Cynthia Lummis (2021-2023), EPA Senior Advisor for Senate Affairs (2019-2021), Office of Sen. Bob Corker (2015-2019)4 filingsthrough 2026
Yasmin NelsonBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Harris (2019-2021); Leg. Asst., Sen. Harris(2017-2019); Tax Policy Analyst, Committee on Finance (2016-2017); Leg.Aide, Sen. Stabenow (2015-2016); Staff Asst., Sen. Booker (2014- 2015)1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 14 of 30 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
