The Williams Companies — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Williams Companies
District of Columbia
27 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2018 · latest filed Oct 18, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$750K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$750K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: the-williams-companies.
fees reported
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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.
ENG
11 filings
$260K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
11 filings
$260K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$220K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$180K 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.
114th Congress
Natural Gas Gathering Enhancement Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 144114th CongressLocal Leadership in Education Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2295114th CongressNational Energy Security Corridors Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1210114th CongressOil and Gas Production and Distribution Reform Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 411114th CongressNatural Gas Gathering Enhancement Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20166 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2910115th CongressPromoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 24114th CongressHonoring the life and memory of Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4937114th CongressPIPES Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2083114th CongressA bill to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project.5 filingsthrough 2016
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.
