Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 10 clients
109 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 9 clients
104 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Ben BarnesCovered position: N/A837 filings125 clients · through 2026
Patsy Lee ThomassonCovered position: N/A777 filings113 clients · through 2025
Kent CapertonCovered position: N/A643 filings103 clients · through 2017
Wyeth WiedemanCovered position: N/A609 filings101 clients · through 2016
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Asoupir Limited
Seychelles
1 filing
through 2015
Royal Boskalis Westminister Nv
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2010
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 934 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: ben-barnes-group-lp.
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 $34.1M in fees and $0 in expenses.
ECN · 5 clients
75 filings
$4M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 5 clients
61 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
56 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 11 clients
55 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 9 clients
53 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 7 clients
49 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 5 clients
47 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 10 clients
46 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 11 clients
43 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 6 clients
33 filings
$2.3M 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.
Scott Moorhead
519 filings86 clients · through 2016
Jessie Fuller2 filings2 clients · through 2019
Covered positions · 4 of 6 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.
