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: the-texas-a-m-university-system.
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 $12M in expenses.
60 filings
$10.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
58 filings
$9.9M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
57 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
56 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Veterans
VET · 1 client
54 filings
$10M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
54 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED · 1 client
47 filings
$8.7M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
45 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
37 filings
$6M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
23 filings
$4.1M 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.
Richard MertensCovered position: Dep. Assoc. Dir. Energy, Science and Water 11/2005-8/201230 filings1 client · through 2019
Jennifer Yezak28 filings1 client · through 2026
Michael James Hardy21 filings1 client · through 2026
Dana Miller Acton13 filings1 client · through 2026
NORMAN ROY GARZA jr11 filings1 client · through 2023
Taylor Sexton10 filings1 client · through 2021
Guy Kibler Diedrich7 filings1 client · through 2010
Amanda Arnold6 filings1 client · through 2015
Camille Judith Lepire3 filings1 client · through 2022
Caroline Rydell1 filing1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 3 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.
