Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
68 filings
$12.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
60 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
David KunzCovered position: Senior Legis. Asst./Counsel, U.S. Rep. LaHood69 filings1 client · through 2026
Allen Karpman39 filings1 client · through 2024
Kyle LiskeCovered position: SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE25 filings1 client · through 2026
THOMAS EARL WERKEMA jr22 filings1 client · through 2012
Matthew Ritter20 filings1 client · through 2016
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Arkema S.A.
France
2 filings
through 2014
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 68 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: arkema-inc-and-its-affiliates-fka-arkema-inc.
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 $0 in fees and $12.6M in expenses.
CHM · 1 client
60 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
60 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
59 filings
$10.9M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
59 filings
$10.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
58 filings
$10.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
57 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Railroads
RRR · 1 client
55 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
54 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
54 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR · 1 client
51 filings
$9.1M 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.
Brandon FarrisCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US House of Representatives, Committee on Agriculture12 filings1 client · through 2020
Amanda TharpeCovered position: Sen. Rounds - Dep. Leg. Dir. (2015-2018); Sen. Env. & Public Works Comm. Subcomm. on Superfund, Waste Management & Reg. Oversight Staff Dir. (2015-2018); House Nat. Res. Comm. - Prof. Staff Mbr. (2011-15); Rep. Mike Ferguson, Leg. Dir. (2008-09)6 filings1 client · through 2026
William Hamel4 filings1 client · through 2008
John O'Leary3 filings1 client · through 2008
Manny Katz3 filings1 client · through 2008
Daryl Roberts2 filings1 client · through 2008
Nancy Berenson2 filings1 client · through 2008
Richard Raiders2 filings1 client · through 2008
Charles Wardlaw1 filing1 client · through 2008
Jeff Hall1 filing1 client · through 2008
Wendal Turley1 filing1 client · through 2008
Kenneth Blackburn1 filing1 client · through 2008
Michael Scott1 filing1 client · through 2008
Gilbert Rudman1 filing1 client · through 2008
Ed Gertz1 filing1 client · through 2008
Timothy Rens1 filing1 client · through 2008
Craig Thomas1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 22 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.
