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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: sempra.
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.
BUD
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
54 filings
$35.2M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
53 filings
$34.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
46 filings
$32M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
41 filings
$21.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
21 filings
$16.5M 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.
115th Congress
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the limitation on the carryover of excess corporate charitable contributions by regulated public utilities.
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1873115th CongressElectricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1229114th CongressDrone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 161114th CongressNatural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 235114th CongressWildfire Disaster Funding Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 33114th CongressLNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 635114th CongressDrone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 24113th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.8 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.
Sean MackaySempra19 filingsthrough 2016
George P WilliamsSempra17 filingsthrough 2012
Melissa Maria SimpsonSempraCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Bureauof Energy Resources15 filingsthrough 2025
WILLIAM C LANSINGER jrSempra15 filingsthrough 2025
Scott CriderSempra15 filingsthrough 2016
Maryam BrownSempraCovered position: Asst. to the Speaker, US House of Reps 2012-2016 Chief Counsel, House Energy & Power Subc. 2011-12 Counsel, Senate Republican Policy Comm. 2010-11 Staff Director, House Energy & Mineral Subc. 2006-08 Counsel, Energy & Commerce Comm. 2004-069 filingsthrough 2019
Danielle PrendergastSempra7 filingsthrough 2010
Alison McguiganSempra5 filingsthrough 2026
Richard GuerardSempra1 filingthrough 2026
Danielle GordonSempraCovered position: Supervisory Energy Industry Analyst1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 4 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
