LINDE INC.

• RIDGELINE ADVOCACY GROUP LLC $330,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
• FRANKLIN SQUARE GROUP, LLC $40,000 Outside firm · 2 filings
• CONFLUENCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS $30,000 Outside firm · 2 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

• H.R. 1
  One Big Beautiful Bill Act
  4 filings

• 2026 $180,000 3 filings
• 2025 $220,000 8 filings

• Energy/Nuclear 11
• Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 11
• Chemicals/Chemical Industry 7
• Manufacturing 7
• Trade (domestic/foreign) 6
• Aerospace 3
• Environment/Superfund 1
• Science/Technology 1

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10
• SENATE 10
• Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 8
• Energy, Dept of 6
• U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) 6
• White House Office 5
• Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) 3
• Treasury, Dept of 2
• State, Dept of (DOS) 1