Note · At least one filing discloses a foreign entity with an interest in a client this registrant represents. Those disclosures are listed below.
Reported spend over time
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
12 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
12 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Defense
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Daniel O'BrienCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Robert Torricelli; Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Joe Biden; Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Robert Menendez; Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations8 filings1 client · through 2025
Joseph MendelsonCovered position: Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Democratic Chief Climate Counsel7 filings1 client · through 2026
Jack Brennan GroarkeCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Natl Economic Council, White House; Senior Advisor, Env. Protection Agency; Economic Dev. Director/Dep. State Director/Leg. Assistant/Leg. Aide/Leg. Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Sen. Bob Casey6 filings1 client · through 2026
Maxwell Cason
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Hanwha Aerospace
South Korea
8 filings
through 2026
Hanwha Corporation
South Korea
8 filings
through 2026
Hanwha Ocean
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: hanwha-q-cells-america-inc.
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 $8.8M in expenses.
DEF · 1 client
5 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
2 filings
$820K 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.
Jennifer DeciCovered position: Sr Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Professional Staff Member/ Sr Professional Staff Member/ Sr Counsel, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Staff Assistant/ Legislative Correspondent/ Press Assistant, Senator Richard Shelby5 filings1 client · through 2024
Kevin AllenCovered position: n/a4 filings1 client · through 2026
Hal ConnollyCovered position: Senior Advisor for Climate and Sustainability, Federal Railroad Administration; Senior Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Senior Policy Director/ Legislative Counsel, Senator Bob Menendez4 filings1 client · through 2024
Stephen VolineCovered position: (note: this individual did not engage in contacts at the U.S. Senate).2 filings1 client · through 2025
Jason Pak2 filings1 client · through 2024
Covered positions · 8 of 10 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.
South Korea
8 filings
through 2026
Hanwha Solutions Corporation
South Korea
8 filings
through 2026
Hanwhasolutionscorp.
South Korea
1 filing
through 2023
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.
