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.
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: sempra.
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 $39.9M in expenses.
BUD · 1 client
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 1 client
58 filings
$36.7M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
54 filings
$35.2M on those filings
Utilities
UTI · 1 client
53 filings
$34.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
46 filings
$32M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT · 1 client
41 filings
$21.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
21 filings
$16.5M 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.
19 filings1 client · through 2016
George P Williams17 filings1 client · through 2012
Melissa Maria SimpsonCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Bureauof Energy Resources15 filings1 client · through 2025
WILLIAM C LANSINGER jr15 filings1 client · through 2025
Scott Crider15 filings1 client · through 2016
Maryam BrownCovered position: Asst. to the Speaker, US House of Reps 2012-2016 Chief Counsel, House Energy & Power Subc. 2011-12 Counsel, Senate Republican Policy Comm. 2010-11 Staff Director, House Energy & Mineral Subc. 2006-08 Counsel, Energy & Commerce Comm. 2004-069 filings1 client · through 2019
Danielle Prendergast7 filings1 client · through 2010
Alison Mcguigan5 filings1 client · through 2026
Richard Guerard1 filing1 client · through 2026
Danielle GordonCovered position: Supervisory Energy Industry Analyst1 filing1 client · through 2025
Covered positions · 4 of 15 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.
