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: sierra-club.
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.
CAW
62 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
59 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
45 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
45 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
43 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
38 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
36 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Education
EDU
28 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
26 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
26 filings
$2.8M 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
Land and Water Conservation Fund Reauthorization and Fairness Act
13 filingsthrough 2018
S. 483115th CongressWild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act13 filingsthrough 2018
S. 728115th CongressRECLAIM Act of
201713 filingsthrough 2018
S. 738115th CongressRECLAIM Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 360115th CongressGreater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument Act12 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2248115th CongressTo prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from revising the approved oil and gas leasing program for fiscal years 2017 through 2022.11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 350115th CongressRPM Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1263115th CongressAtlantic Seismic Airgun Protection Act11 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.
Sierra Club
29 filingsthrough 2019
Patrick DruppSierra Club25 filingsthrough 2026
David HamiltonSierra Club24 filingsthrough 2015
Kirin KennedySierra Club23 filingsthrough 2021
Stephen Terry McguireSierra Club17 filingsthrough 2016
Harrison ManinSierra ClubCovered position: -Policy Advisor for Climate Justice and Equity at House Committee on Oversight and Reform -Professional Staff Member at House Committee on Oversight and Reform12 filingsthrough 2026
None NoneSierra Club12 filingsthrough 2013
Matthew J BearzottiSierra Club11 filingsthrough 2022
Edward HopkinsSierra Club11 filingsthrough 2013
John DunmoreSierra Club9 filingsthrough 2022
Jordan GiaconiaSierra Club9 filingsthrough 2019
Christine HillSierra Club9 filingsthrough 2018
Ann MesnikoffSierra Club9 filingsthrough 2012
Katherine JohnsonSierra Club9 filingsthrough 2010
Michael GooWaxman StrategiesCovered position: Chief Counsel for Energy & Environment, House Energy & Commerce Committee, (Minority), Senior Policy Advisor/detailee, US Department of Energy, Associate Administrator, US EPA, Staff Director & Chief Counsel, Select Committee on Energy Independence8 filingsthrough 2024
Mahyar SorourSierra Club7 filingsthrough 2026
Carl LeightyWaxman Strategies6 filingsthrough 2024
