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: teco-energy-inc.
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
5 filings
$168K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$96K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$30K 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.
110th Congress
Alternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of 2008
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1380112th CongressNew Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1683112th CongressTextile Enforcement and Security Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6316110th CongressClimate MATTERS Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1177110th CongressClean Air Planning Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1766110th CongressLow Carbon Economy Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 280110th CongressClimate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 317110th CongressElectric Utility Cap and Trade Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
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.
William H HechtHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc
5 filingsthrough 2009
Stuart SpencerHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc5 filingsthrough 2009
FRANKLIN C PHIFER jrHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc5 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 2 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
