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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
504 filings
$193.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
322 filings
$187M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 557 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1551115th CongressOrrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act30 filingsthrough 2018
S. 666115th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the credit for production from advanced nuclear power facilities.23 filingsthrough 2018
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: southern-company.
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.
TAX
228 filings
$177.1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
184 filings
$180.7M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
160 filings
$165.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
141 filings
$178M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
135 filings
$177.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
107 filings
$176.1M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
75 filings
$174.8M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
73 filings
$137.9M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
19 filings
$51.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
16 filings
$490K 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
Student Debt Repayment Fairness Act
21 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 723115th CongressEnergy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 201721 filingsthrough 2018
S. 239115th CongressEnergy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 201721 filingsthrough 2018
S. 385115th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act21 filingsthrough 2018
S. 79115th CongressSecuring Energy Infrastructure Act21 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 24113th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.19 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act19 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1320115th CongressNuclear Utilization of Keynote Energy Act18 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2930115th CongressDrone Innovation Act of 201718 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act18 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 589115th CongressDepartment of Energy Research and Innovation Act18 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 590115th CongressAdvanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 201718 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.
Franklin Scott OrrSouthern Company73 filingsthrough 2024
Scott H SegalBracewell LLP72 filingsthrough 2026
Bryan CunninghamPolaris-Hutton Group, LLCCovered position: See Registration for Listing68 filingsthrough 2026
Michael HuttonPolaris-Hutton Group, LLCCovered position: See Registration for Listing68 filingsthrough 2026
Dan GansPolaris-Hutton Group, LLCCovered position: See Registration for Listing68 filingsthrough 2026
Edward KrenikBracewell LLPCovered position: Assoc. Admin. Cong. Affairs, EPA (2001-03); Leg. Director, Rep. Frelinghuysen (1994-2001); Leg. Asst./Assoc. Staff Rep. Dean Gallo (1989-94); Leg. Asst. Sen. Durenberger (1987-89)67 filingsthrough 2025
Noel W BlackSouthern Company67 filingsthrough 2025
WILLIE E. (J.R.) ROBINSON jrSouthern Company61 filingsthrough 2026
Joshua C ZiveBracewell LLP61 filingsthrough 2023
Elizabeth Dee MartinBracewell LLP61 filingsthrough 2023
Daniel Stephen MurraySouthern CompanyCovered position: Senior Policy Adviser, U.S. Sen. James E Risch (ID)59 filingsthrough 2026
Leroy D NixSouthern CompanyCovered position: Legislative Aide, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions53 filingsthrough 2020
Bryan D AndersonSouthern Company52 filingsthrough 2020
Robert A RussellThe Simmons & Russell Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Mark Pryor51 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle SimmonsThe Simmons & Russell Group, LLC51 filingsthrough 2026
Melissa H HortonSouthern Company50 filingsthrough 2026
Lisa M JaegerBracewell LLPCovered position: Acting General Counsel, EPA (2003-2004); Deputy General Counsel, EPA (2001-2003); Leg. Assistant, Sen. K.B. Hutchison (1997-98); Assoc Dir Cabinet Affairs, White House (1992)48 filingsthrough 2020
JAMES M MCCOOL srSouthern Company48 filingsthrough 2018
Jeff MackinnonFarragut Partners LLPCovered position: LD and LA Rep. Joe Barton (RTexas)46 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffery C. MortierFarragut Partners LLPCovered position: Prof Staff on E&C Cmte, LA Rep Whitfield and Intern Devin Nunes46 filingsthrough 2026
