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
111 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
91 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Utilities
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 43 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4149111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1686115th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the limitation on the carryover of excess corporate charitable contributions by regulated public utilities.7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2921115th CongressNational Forest System Vegetation Management Pilot Program Act of 2017
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: xcel-energy.
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.
UTI
24 filings
$439K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
9 filings
$246K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$60K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$140K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$110K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
1 filing
$110K 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.
7 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1899113th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a consumer renewable credit for a utility that sells renewable power, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4149112th CongressTo amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources under the supplemental security income program.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5175117th CongressIncentivizing Solar Deployment Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2073115th CongressNational Forest System Vegetation Management Pilot Program Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5486111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Capitol Counsel LLC
22 filingsthrough 2014
Daniel J GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. McMillan ; ; COS, Rep Riley; LD, Rep Martini; Sr LA, Rep. Franks.20 filingsthrough 2016
Bryan CunninghamPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: LC Sen. Gregg ; ; Policy Advsr & LA, Sen Ensign; LA Rep LoBiondo.17 filingsthrough 2016
