66 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Oct 21, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$3.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$2.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$890K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
61 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
46 filings
$3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 195 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1443115th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 960115th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax-exempt financing of certain government-owned buildings.8 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: u-s-green-building-council.
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
41 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Education
EDU
29 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
26 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
23 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Housing
HOU
17 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
15 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
8 filings
$645K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$675K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
4 filings
$430K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
4 filings
$430K 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
Public Buildings Renewal Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 385115th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 873114th CongressTo promote energy efficiency, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 720114th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2187111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4226111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1121111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1379111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6078110th CongressGREEN Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20166 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.
8 filingsthrough 2011
Cory ShindelU.S. Green Building Council8 filingsthrough 2009
Don LysterCapitol Solutions6 filingsthrough 2011
Shelley Nan FidlerVan Ness Feldman, LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Tracy A TolkVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Senior Leg Assistant, Rep. Jim Davis, 2001-046 filingsthrough 2009
Jason HartkeU.S. Green Building CouncilCovered position: Special Asst. to Dir. of Intergov. Affairs4 filingsthrough 2008
Ed RothschildPodesta Group, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2012
