Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
65 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
45 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Neil Beup35 filings1 client · through 2024
Omar A VargasCovered position: 2001-03; Asst. & Counsel to Dir of Violence Agai21 filings1 client · through 2016
Pete Depasquale16 filings1 client · through 2015
Valerie King10 filings1 client · through 2011
Brian HeindlCovered position: Legislative Director, Deputy Legislative Director Appropriations Director, Legislative Assistant, Staff Assistant and Legislative Correspondent for Sen. Herb Kohl; Intern, Rep. Robert Andrews
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Linde PLC
Ireland
2 filings
through 2020
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 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Client
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Linde Inc., Linde, PLC and Other Entities Related to Linde, PLC
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: linde-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 $9.4M in expenses.
BUD · 1 client
27 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
11 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
9 filings
$2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
8 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
7 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
6 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
6 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
6 filings
$870K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
4 filings
$540K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 1 client
2 filings
$360K 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.
6 filings
1 client · through 2026
Chris Brown1 filing1 client · through 2010
Covered positions · 2 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.
Linde Inc., Linde, PLC and Other Entities Related to Linde, PLC
