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.
Patrick RaffanielloRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster27 filingsthrough 2019
Timothy Lloyd HanfordRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means25 filingsthrough 2019
Amanda Mertens CampbellThe Williams Companies, Inc.Covered position: U.S. House of Representatives - General Counsel for Energy & Commerce Committee 2008-201023 filingsthrough 2023
Glenn F JacksonThe Williams Companies, Inc. Director, Government Affairs
The filings
The 20 most recent of 137 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-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.
30 filings
$16.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
28 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
23 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
19 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
16 filings
$790K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
9 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
2 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$750K 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. 411114th CongressNatural Gas Gathering Enhancement Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1456118th CongressSPUR Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2295114th CongressNational Energy Security Corridors Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1210114th CongressOil and Gas Production and Distribution Reform Act of 20157 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.
Covered position:
22 filingsthrough 2012
Mary LandrieuVnf Solutions, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator (1997-2015)17 filingsthrough 2026
Stuart HallVnf Solutions, LLCCovered position: LD (2007-2008), LA/LC (2002-2007) - Office of Rep. Richard Baker17 filingsthrough 2026
Michael PincusVnf Solutions, LLC17 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel MillerForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative
Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)17 filingsthrough 2024
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (2014-2017)17 filingsthrough 2024
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron
Kind (1999-2002)17 filingsthrough 2024
Rick AgnewVnf Solutions, LLC15 filingsthrough 2025
Judith L NeasonThe Williams Companies, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2018
Liz BowmanThe Williams Companies, Inc.Covered position: Communications Director, US Senate, Office of Senator Joni Ernst; Associate Administrator for Public Affairs, US Environmental Protection Agency10 filingsthrough 2026
Deborah B LawrenceThe Williams Companies, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2015
Scott RiplingerCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dean Heller, 2007 - 2011; Shared Employee and Staff Assistant, U.S. House Small Business Committee, Rep. Don Manzullo, 2005 - 20077 filingsthrough 2026
Travis ConeCgcn Group, LLCCovered position: (4) Staff Director, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 2019-2020; Deputy Staff Director, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Republicans, 2021-20247 filingsthrough 2026
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff,
House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)7 filingsthrough 2022
Lou HaydenThe Williams Companies, Inc.Covered position: Special Projects Director7 filingsthrough 2011
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Max Baucus (2001-2004)6 filingsthrough 2021
Peter StahleyCassidy & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff Member, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee4 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas KirkhornThe Williams Companies, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2023
Kristina DunklinForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Susan Brooks (2018-2019); Legislative Director,
Rep. David Valadao (2015-2018); Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Valadao
(2014-2015)4 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 17 of 23 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
