Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Valero
District of Columbia
18 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2017 · latest filed Jan 22, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
17 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$30K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 702 114th CongressTo adapt to changing crude oil market conditions.3 filingsthrough 2015
- S. 1372 114th CongressAmerican Crude Oil Export Equality Act3 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Blanche Lincoln Lincoln Policy GroupCovered position: U.S. Senator and Congresswoman - Arkansas20 filingsthrough 2017
- Robert Holifield Lincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Subcmte on Int'l TradeDeputy Chief of Staff, CFTCDirector of External Affairs, CFTC20 filingsthrough 2017
- Hannah Lambiotte Smith Lincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Subcmte Trade16 filingsthrough 2017
- Jack Macgregor Campbell Lincoln Policy Group Deputy Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee; General Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Legislative Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: valero.