University of Houston — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
University of Houston
Texas
55 filings from 3 registrants · 2013–2026 · latest filed May 5, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.8M
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.
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Leg cnsl to Rep Northup, 1999; leg cnsl to Rep Inglis, ; ; 1997-99; legal intern to Spkr Gingrich, 1996; leg aide to ; ; Sen Coverdell, 1993-94
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 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: university-of-houston.
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.
40 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$60K 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
North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015
2 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20162 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 2018
Susan LentAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Cnsl to Surface Trnsp Subcomm, H Comm on Trnsp & ; ; Infrastruc, 1995-Aug 9822 filingsthrough 2018
Josef NovotnyHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Reading Clerk - Office of Legislative Operations, Chief Clerk - Office of the Clerk, Chief Clerk - Committee on Education & Labor9 filingsthrough 2025
Singleton McallisterHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: General Counsel US AID, General Counsel House Budget Committee9 filingsthrough 2020
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 007 filingsthrough 2017
Christopher K. BradishCt Group Fka Ctf Global LLCCovered position: Legislative Dir., Office of Sen. Arlen Specter5 filingsthrough 2026
Lawrence C. GrossmanCt Group Fka Ctf Global LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, House Armed Services Committee5 filingsthrough 2026
Alexander SchenckHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Legislative Aide Sen. Sullivan5 filingsthrough 2019
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm2 filingsthrough 2017
Hans C RickhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2015
Louis AgnelloAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Snr Cnsl, Joint Econ Committee, Mar 17-Nov 17; Leg cnsl, Sen Heinrich, Apr 14-Mar 17; Leg Asst, Rep Doris Matsui, Dec 11-Apr 14; Leg Asst, Senate Judiciary Committee, May 09-Aug 09; Research Analyst, Senate Small Business Committee, Jun 07-Aug 081 filingthrough 2018
Bill PaxonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Mbr of Cong, 1989-991 filingthrough 2013
