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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
28 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 43 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1149112th CongressTo amend the Clean Air Act to include algae-based biofuel in the renewable fuel program and amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include algae-based biofuel in the cellulosic biofuel producer credit.5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 748112th CongressAlgae-Based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1250111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Tim PeckinpaughK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: N/A23 filingsthrough 2014
Steven MccainK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: N/A23 filingsthrough 2014
Michael William EvansK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Comm.; Chief Counsel, Senate Finance Committee18 filingsthrough 2014
Nicholas LeibhamK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Special Asst, Rep Ackerman
The filings
The 20 most recent of 28 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: sapphire-energy.
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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.
ENV
7 filings
$990K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
5 filings
$90K 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.
5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1085112th CongressA bill to amend the Clean Air Act to define next generation biofuel, and to allow States the option of not participating in the corn ethanol portions of the renewable fuel standard due to conflicts with agricultural, economic, energy, and environmental goals.4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1185112th CongressEthanol Reform and Deficit Reduction Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1564112th CongressRenewable Fuel Parity Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3460111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4168111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20143 filingsthrough 2013
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.
