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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
73 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
72 filings
$9.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 126 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 380116th CongressTo amend the Federal Power Act to require the consideration of invasive species when prescribing fishways, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5376119th CongressImpacts and Outcomes for Health Career Training Act7 filingsthrough 2026
JOHN V RAINBOLT iiiAlliant Energy CorporationCovered position: Former Legislative Director to former Congressman John Sullivan (OK-01)58 filingsthrough 2026
Catharine Cyr RansomFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Bob Graham; Professional Staff and Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; Sr. Climate and Environmental Advisor, Senator Max Baucus24 filingsthrough 2026
Rob SeidmanFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Kelly Ayotte; Policy Director, Rep. Marsha Blackburn; Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bob Riley;
Intern, Sen. Bill Frist24 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 91 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: alliant-energy-corporation.
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.
ENV
46 filings
$3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
42 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
24 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
24 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
22 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
11 filings
$479K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
9 filings
$376K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
3 filings
$87K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
Manufacturing
MAN
2 filings
$680K 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.
113th Congress
Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3399117th CongressTo amend the Federal Power Act to require the consideration of invasive species when prescribing fishways, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 848117th CongressGREEN Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1502116th CongressPURPA Modernization Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3043115th CongressHydropower Policy Modernization Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2188117th CongressCommission to Study the Stigmatization, Criminalization, and Ongoing Exclusion and Inequity for LGBTQ Servicemembers and Veterans Act5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1760116th CongressUPDATE PURPA Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4476115th CongressPURPA Modernization Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2704116th CongressRenewable Energy Transferability Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2273112th CongressCoal Residuals Reuse and Management Act4 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Paul PoteetFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor and Tax and Trade Counsel, Sen. John Thune;
Republican Staff Director, Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs and Global Competitiveness; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Wally Herger; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Wally Herger; Staff Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Staff Assistant, Sen. Rick Santorum; Intern, Rep. Richard Baker24 filingsthrough 2026
Joel JohnsonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Exec. Director, House Democratic Study Group; Assistant Secretary of the Minority, U.S. Senate; Staff Director, Democrat Leadership Committees; Assistant and Sr. Advisor to the President for Policy and Communications20 filingsthrough 2025
Zack Alan HillAlliant Energy Corporation17 filingsthrough 2012
Randall DevalkFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Counselor to Secretary of Treasury, US Department of the Treasury; Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Legislative Affairs, US Department of the Treasury; Counselor to the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, White House;; Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid; Legislative Policy Director, United States Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid; Senior Legislative Assistant, US Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle.15 filingsthrough 2024
Ben SpringerFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)14 filingsthrough 2025
Ruth SeimAlliant Energy Corporation11 filingsthrough 2026
Lydia AngelAlliant Energy Corporation10 filingsthrough 2023
Christina BaworowskyAlliant Energy Corporation10 filingsthrough 2020
Cyril Paul McneillAlliant Energy Corporation4 filingsthrough 2024
Christopher P SchoenherrAlliant Energy Corporation2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
