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 lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
52 filings
$120K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
16 filings
$30K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 558116th CongressNative American Millennium Challenge Demonstration Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 126116th CongressNative American Millennium Challenge Demonstration Act8 filingsthrough 2020
Richard A AgnewVan Ness Feldman, LLP46 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew M VanderjackVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: President's Council on Environmental Quality, Legal Intern to the General Counsel, 2006-2007; U.S. EPA, Legal Intern, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, 2006; Office of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (RAK), LC, 2001-2003.36 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan SimonVan Ness Feldman, LLP26 filingsthrough 2024
Alan L MintzVan Ness Feldman, LLP17 filingsthrough 2012
WILLIAM J VAN NESS jr
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: alaska-federation-of-natives-inc.
BUD
3 filings
$20K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$20K 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 spend 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.
112th Congress
To amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1291112th CongressTo amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 676112th CongressA bill to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3531110th CongressAccountability in Enforcing Immigration Laws Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2057110th CongressFederal Merit System Reauthorization Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3697111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3732111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1703111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
