Cascabel Working Group
A grassroots organization concerned with the cultural and ecological integrity of the lower/middle San Pedro Valley

Follow the Money - Lobbying



Both the House and the Senate have searchable databases of required lobbying reports by quarter.

• The House: House Lobbying Disclosure Search

  --Search using field 'House ID #' with a value of 367160002 (Southwestern Power Group)
  --Search using field 'House ID #' with a value of 416660000 (SunZia)
  --or, you can just type in 'Sunzia'

• The Senate: Lobbying Disclosure database

    --put 'SunZia' in the Client area of the search)
    --Here is a direct link (client=SunZia)

Another interesting link is the Center for Responsive Politics Open Secrets.org page on SunZia or Southwestern Power Group, where you can view reports by year.


A short list of some of the agencies lobbied:



•CWG's detailed spring 2015 report on lobbying



ANNUAL TOTALS:
2013: $10,000 (reported as of May)
2012: $246,000
2011: $269,000
2010: $180,000
2009: $185,000


Southwestern Power Group spends roughly $40,000-$50,000 per quarter lobbying the government on behalf of SunZia. They have hired a company called Capitol Consultants, LLC,---and now (2011) T Champion Consulting LLC, to do their bidding. And there could well be other lobbying done on behalf of the Sunzia project that we have yet to uncover. Recipients include the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Department of Interior (DOI), and the Council on Environmental Quality.