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.
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: waste-management.
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.
WAS
44 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
23 filings
$820K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
22 filings
$760K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
14 filings
$420K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
1 filing
$80K 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
Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2218113th CongressCoal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5581111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1380113th CongressAccess to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2273113th CongressGreat Lakes Navigation System Sustainability Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
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.
25 filingsthrough 2026
Michael L PateBracewell LLP25 filingsthrough 2015
Gregory CarnrickGephardt Group Government Affairs23 filingsthrough 2017
Lucia AlonzoMichael Best Strategies LLC18 filingsthrough 2026
Salo ZelermyerBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, DOE (2007-2009)18 filingsthrough 2015
James E BolandJames Boland17 filingsthrough 2013
Thomas O'DonnellGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader10 filingsthrough 2010
Alexander AngelsonMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, Office of Legislative Affairs, Executive Office of the President7 filingsthrough 2025
Alexandra KentMichael Best Strategies LLC7 filingsthrough 2024
Curtis BeaulieuBracewell LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel Sen. Finance Committee (2011-2014); Tax Counsel, Sen. Hatch (2008-2011); Tax Counsel, Rep. McCrery (2007-2008); Counsel, Sen. Johnson (2006-2007); Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Vitter (2005-2006)7 filingsthrough 2016
Susan LentAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: & Infrastruc, 1995-Aug 987 filingsthrough 2013
Margaret FranklinMichael Best Strategies LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senate; Legislative Aide, House of Representatives; Associate, Senate Finance Committee5 filingsthrough 2024
