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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
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-petroleum-institute.
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 $0 in fees and $119.1M in expenses.
FUE · 1 client
69 filings
$119.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
68 filings
$117.2M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
68 filings
$117M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
65 filings
$114.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
65 filings
$112.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
56 filings
$99.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
54 filings
$92.3M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
50 filings
$87.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
7 filings
$10.9M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT · 1 client
3 filings
$5.4M 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.
39 filings1 client · through 2020
Jack GerardCovered position: Leg. Dir. to Sen. James A. McClure <1988-199038 filings1 client · through 2018
Aaron PadillaCovered position: n/a37 filings1 client · through 2026
Robin RorickCovered position: n/a35 filings1 client · through 2019
Brian Marshall JohnsonCovered position: N/A34 filings1 client · through 2018
Misty Mcgowen30 filings1 client · through 2017
John CramtonCovered position: Assoc. Deputy Ass't Sec., Sen. Affairs, U.S. Dep't of Energy, '19-'20; Leg. Pol'y Adv., U.S. Dep't of Energy, '18-'19; Pol'y Adv., Cassidy, '15-'18; LC, Cassidy, '14-'15.28 filings1 client · through 2026
WILLIAM ROBERT HUPMAN iiiCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Griffith (Jan. '11-Sept. '14); Legislative Counsel, Rep. Forbes (June '08-Dec. '10)27 filings1 client · through 2021
Kenneth James Moy24 filings1 client · through 2022
Marty Durbin24 filings1 client · through 2018
Stephanie R. MeadowsCovered position: N/A24 filings1 client · through 2018
Arthur Michael Wiese21 filings1 client · through 2014
Margaret Smythe AndersonCovered position: LA, Ryan (11/12-8/13 and 2/11-5/12); Press Sec., Ryan (5/12-11/12); LC, Burr (12/10-2/11); Staff Asst., Burr (2/10-12/10)19 filings1 client · through 2022
Andrea MilesCovered position: LD and Comms. Dir., Shadegg (1/98-8/99)19 filings1 client · through 2021
William KoetzleCovered position: Deputy Staff Dir., House Cmte. on Energy & Commerce (1/07-1/08); Asst. for Pol'y, Hastert (02-07); LD, Hastert (98-02).17 filings1 client · through 2022
Erik BaptistCovered position: N/A17 filings1 client · through 2016
Prentiss SearlesCovered position: N/A15 filings1 client · through 2015
Vincent ErfeCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Turner (Aug. '11-Aug. '15); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dreier (Aug. '02-Dec. '06; March '09-Aug. '11)14 filings1 client · through 2018
Ben NorrisCovered position: N/A14 filings1 client · through 2016
Barbara EhimikaCovered position: Special Assistant, Boxer 07-0913 filings1 client · through 2015
Lisa CegliaCovered position: N/A13 filings1 client · through 2014
Kelley HudakCovered position: Coalitions Dir., Maj. Whip, '16-'19; Business Coalitions Coord., Maj. Whip, '15-'16; Dir. of Coalitions and State Outreach, House RSC, '13-'15; Intern, Wittman, '10; Intern, Wittman, '09; Intern, Wittman, '08.12 filings1 client · through 2026
Matthew Koch12 filings1 client · through 2011
Covered positions · 48 of 82 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.
