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: balch-bingham-llp.
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 $16.9M in fees and $0 in expenses.
ENV · 7 clients
69 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 10 clients
68 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 4 clients
65 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 3 clients
60 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 6 clients
58 filings
$3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 6 clients
56 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 4 clients
50 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 4 clients
41 filings
$1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 4 clients
39 filings
$795K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 3 clients
35 filings
$1.5M 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.
LOUIS HENGEN jrCovered position: Aide to Senator Trent Lott62 filings5 clients · through 2016
MARGARET CARAVELLI esqCovered position: Counsel, House Committee on Energy & Commerce; Chief Counsel, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology; Senior Clean Air Act Counsel, Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works33 filings2 clients · through 2020
William H Satterfield27 filings2 clients · through 2014
Stephen Wright Still25 filings2 clients · through 2023
Jeffrey H. WoodCovered position: Counsel on Environment, Energy & Transportation for Senator Jeff Sessions; Minority Staff Director for Senate Subcommittees on Water & Wildlife, and Clean Air & Nuclear Safety14 filings2 clients · through 2016
M Stanford Blanton12 filings1 client · through 2011
Karen BillupsCovered position: Senior Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.8 filings1 client · through 2018
Alexandra Gomez3 filings1 client · through 2008
Alex Leath2 filings1 client · through 2010
Jovita Wenner2 filings2 clients · through 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 14 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.
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2008
Telenor as (Aeromobile)
Norway
1 filing
through 2008
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.
