Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 39 clients
640 filings
$11.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 28 clients
367 filings
$7.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Tim StewartCovered position: CoS, House Resources Committee, 2001-03 LA, Senator Bob Bennett, 1993-2000738 filings48 clients · through 2026
Dave LarsonCovered position: Aide, Congressman Harris Fawell 1992, Health Policy Advisor, Senator Bill First 1995-2001687 filings59 clients · through 2026
Jim LinkCovered position: LA, Rep. Dickinson 89-92222 filings23 clients · through 2013
Jonathon LehmanCovered position: Aide, Senate Democratic Policy Comm 99-00170 filings17 clients · through 2019
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Cardtronics PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2018
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 1,525 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
The Bennett Consulting Group on Behalf of Energy Substantiation Partners LLC
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: american-capitol-group.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $29.6M in fees and $100K in expenses.
ENG · 14 clients
269 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 18 clients
161 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 8 clients
131 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 13 clients
101 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 4 clients
89 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 7 clients
66 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Education
EDU · 3 clients
64 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 2 clients
38 filings
$795K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 5 clients
32 filings
$560K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 2 clients
29 filings
$630K 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 money 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.
Cody StewartCovered position: Dir, House Western Caucus 2003-0650 filings15 clients · through 2008
PAUL JOHN KETCHEL iiiCovered position: Aide, Senator Frist 1998-0120 filings6 clients · through 2008
Kate ChildressCovered position: N/A14 filings3 clients · through 2009
Spencer Stokes3 filings1 client · through 2008
Chris Myrick1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
