Union Pacific Company — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Union Pacific Company
District of Columbia
46 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2020 · latest filed Jan 22, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Railroads
RRR
45 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1748116th CongressSafe Freight Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1979116th CongressSafe Freight Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
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: union-pacific-company.
1 filing
$50K 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.
112th Congress
Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2011
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 233111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 146111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2095110th CongressRailroad Safety Enhancement Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 772110th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 953110th CongressRailroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1650110th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3651114th CongressPositive Train Control Enforcement and Implementation Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Stacey AlexanderAvoq, LLC39 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Coordinator, Senator Baucus33 filingsthrough 2020
Robert CogornoAvoq, LLCCovered position: Communications, Sen. Adams31 filingsthrough 2017
Whitaker L AskewAvoq, LLC13 filingsthrough 2020
Ed KutlerAvoq, LLCCovered position: Executive Director, House Wednesday Group; Senior Advisor to Minority Whip and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich12 filingsthrough 2020
Cedric GrantAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, Rep. Rangel; Dir., WH Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships; US Dept. of Commerce; CoS, Rep. Jeffries8 filingsthrough 2020
Jamie WallAvoq, LLCCovered position: LA - Sen. Roy Blunt, LA - Sen. Kit Bond, LC - Sen. Kit Bond, Staff Asst. - Sen. Kit Bond, Constituent Svcs Caseworker - Gov. Matt Blunt7 filingsthrough 2018
Natalie Farr HarrisonAvoq, LLCCovered position: CoS, Deputy CoS, Sen. Gardner; CoS, LD, Rep. Gardner; Professional Staff, Rep. Study Comm.; LA - Dept of Labor; LA, Rep. Shadegg, Proj. Asst., Rep. Policy Comm.6 filingsthrough 2020
Bill GhentAvoq, LLCCovered position: Sen. Tom Carper (2003-2019) - Chief of staff 2015-2019; Legislative Director 2007-2015; and, Communications Director 2003-20064 filingsthrough 2020
Tom LopachAvoq, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Sen. Jon Tester - 2010-2014; Senior Vice President Congressional Affairs - Export Import Bank of the United States - 2009; Legislative Aide - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy - 2001; Field Representative - Rep. Pat Williams - 1996;3 filingsthrough 2017
James HoutonAvoq, LLC3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
