Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Natural Resources
NAT · 45 clients
367 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 24 clients
164 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Animals
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
William HornCovered position: Assistant Sec. for Fish, Wildlife & Parks, DOI346 filings45 clients · through 2018
Douglas FullerCovered position: Sr. Counsel, House Resources Committee; Additional342 filings35 clients · through 2016
Jon DevoreCovered position: Attorney273 filings22 clients · through 2026
Edwina Langenberg-MillerCovered position: Staff, Sen. Lisa Murkowski239 filings42 clients · through 2013
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Rederi Ab Transatlantic
Sweden
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.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 1,402 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: birch-horton-bittner-cherot.
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 $7M in fees and $0 in expenses.
ANI · 10 clients
130 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND · 11 clients
128 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 5 clients
40 filings
$440K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 3 clients
40 filings
$100K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 4 clients
36 filings
$660K on those filings
Small Business
SMB · 8 clients
34 filings
$310K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 6 clients
32 filings
$530K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 4 clients
31 filings
$290K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES · 3 clients
28 filings
$413K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 4 clients
22 filings
$265K 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.
Michael SebringCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter
151 filings19 clients · through 2017
James Hardwick ListerCovered position: Attorney115 filings10 clients · through 2026
Carissa Siebeneck Anderson114 filings14 clients · through 2018
Melinda Meade Meyers105 filings16 clients · through 2016
Elisabeth H RossCovered position: attorney98 filings9 clients · through 2022
Alexander OrtizCovered position: Staff, Senator Ted Stevens96 filings30 clients · through 2011
David E LamppCovered position: Media Clerk, Rep. Tillie K. Fowler59 filings12 clients · through 2014
Haines LandryCovered position: Intern, Senator Begich; Intern, Senator Stevens39 filings20 clients · through 2012
Zach OlsonCovered position: Staff Asst/LC/Corsp. Dir., Sen. Murkowski31 filings2 clients · through 2018
Charles Eberle29 filings9 clients · through 2010
Ronald G Birch28 filings9 clients · through 2011
Jonathan Myles Laurier Cannon3 filings1 client · through 2018
Maggie M BurgessCovered position: Staff assistant, lc, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Senate Energy Committee3 filings1 client · through 2017
Covered positions · 12 of 17 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.
