91 filings from 3 registrants · 2015–2025 · latest filed Oct 20, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$5.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$5.7M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
91 filings
$5.7M 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
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.
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: westlake-chemical-partners-lp.
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.
17 filingsthrough 2018
CHARLES WILLIAM BOUSTANY jrCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 7th and 3rd districts; House Ways and Means Committee14 filingsthrough 2022
David BridgesCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. John Barrasso; Tax Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed.11 filingsthrough 2025
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th district; Ranking member, House Ways and Means Committee; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation.8 filingsthrough 2018
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.5 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
