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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
67 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
65 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Intelligence
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 46 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act9 filingsthrough 2014
S. 21113th CongressCybersecurity and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
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: vistra-corporate-services-company-f-k-a-vistra-energy.
INT
28 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$210K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
1 filing
$20K 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.
113th Congress
Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3523112th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2105112th CongressCybersecurity Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4753111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2877111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3072111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3663111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S.J.Res. 26111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6899110th CongressComprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2008
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.
26 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Wayne NaglePublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Tom Udall; Chief of Staff, U.S. Representative Tom Udall; Associate Staff, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations21 filingsthrough 2022
Paul M SnyderPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.20 filingsthrough 2013
Chris ViesonPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: House Majority Leader, Floor Director; House Majority Leader, Deputy Floor Director; House Republican Whip, Appropriations Policy Advisor; House Republican Whip, Floor Assistant; House Republican Conference, Policy Advisor11 filingsthrough 2016
Nathan J MillerPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Legislative Aide8 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
