Washington Public Utility Districts… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Washington Public Utility Districts Association
Washington
31 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Dec 23, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$600K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$600K
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
31 filings
$600K 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 91 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20167 filingsthrough 2016
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: washington-public-utility-districts-association.
114th Congress
CIPA
6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2358114th CongressElectricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2165111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2195111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 946111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2848114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1038113th CongressPublic Power Risk Management Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2698112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to broaden the special rules for certain governmental plans under section 105(j) to include plans established by political subdivisions.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3523112th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2012
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.
