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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
66 filings
$10.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
61 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Transportation
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Rebecca T SczudloCovered position: n/a53 filings1 client · through 2020
Patrick OrthCovered position: L.A. to Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, L.D. to Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio, L.C. and Staff Assistant to Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio30 filings1 client · through 2026
Alex OehlerCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant to Rep. Wally Herger25 filings1 client · through 2015
Jason Muller16 filings1 client · through 2019
Elizabeth Golding
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: nisource-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 $11.6M in expenses.
TRA · 1 client
54 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
54 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
45 filings
$7.9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
33 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
26 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Utilities
UTI · 1 client
12 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
4 filings
$947K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
4 filings
$797K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
4 filings
$560K on those filings
Retirement
RET · 1 client
3 filings
$570K 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.
Covered position: Special Asst (DOE) - 3/08-1/09
10 filings1 client · through 2014
Carl Levander6 filings1 client · through 2020
Maria Pereyra-VeraCovered position: Special Assistant, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy5 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 7 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.
