Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Western Research Institute
Wyoming
30 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jul 14, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$265K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$265K
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.
Transportation
TRA
25 filings
$235K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$225K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2569 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
- H.R. 5325 112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
- H.R. 5972 112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- David R French Ens Resources, Inc.26 filingsthrough 2016
- Eric Sapirstein Ens Resources, Inc.Covered position: President21 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: western-research-institute.