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: watereuse-association.
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.
NAT
29 filings
$680K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$550K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$290K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$100K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
3 filings
$90K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 4849111th 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. 3177111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2421110th CongressClean Water Restoration Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1870110th CongressClean Water Restoration Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1932116th CongressDrought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act3 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 594114th CongressWaters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 6194110th CongressSustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3258110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2021
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:
13 filingsthrough 2011
David R FrenchEns Resources, Inc.Covered position: Senior Associate13 filingsthrough 2011
Paul EpplerPlurus Strategies, LLC10 filingsthrough 2025
David Joseph LeiterPlurus Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Wendell Ford; Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator John Kerry; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy10 filingsthrough 2025
Mia O'ConnellO'Connell & Dempsey, LLC7 filingsthrough 2019
Patrick RaffanielloRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster6 filingsthrough 2026
Jean CornellPlurus Strategies, LLC6 filingsthrough 2025
Daniel WolfO'Connell & Dempsey, LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. Jared Huffman; Intern, Sen. Christopher Van Hollen5 filingsthrough 2019
Timothy Lloyd HanfordRaffaniello & AssociatesCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means4 filingsthrough 2025
B Robert OkunThe O Team LLCCovered position: Asst. to Speaker New Gingrich; Floor Asst. to House Republican Leader Robert H. Michel; Asst. Secretary of Education for Legislation, DOE3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
