American Equity Investment Life Holding… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Equity Investment Life Holding Company
Iowa
66 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2024 · latest filed Jan 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$2.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.1M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
51 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Retirement
RET
43 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Insurance
INS
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2733112th CongressTo amend title 37, United States Code, to ensure that the basic allowance for housing in effect for a member of the National Guard is not reduced when the member transitions between active duty and full-time National Guard duty without a break in active service.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Joel OswaldWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Prof. Staff, Senate Banking; LA, Sen. Enzi.65 filingsthrough 2024
David E FranasiakWilliams and Jensen, PLLC65 filingsthrough 2024
David A StarrWilliams and Jensen, PLLC56 filingsthrough 2022
Frank VlossakWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: LA, Rep. Merrill Cook29 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen A Blumenthal
The filings
The 20 most recent of 66 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: american-equity-investment-life-holding-company.
fees reported
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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.
31 filings
$1.3M 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.
1 filingthrough 2011
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.
Williams and Jensen, PLLC
26 filingsthrough 2016
George D BakerWilliams and Jensen, PLLC24 filingsthrough 2016
Eric RobinsWilliams and Jensen, PLLC16 filingsthrough 2014
Karina LynchWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Staff, Senate Committee on Government Affairs15 filingsthrough 2013
Mahlet MakonnenWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Department of Veterans Affairs, Attorney Advisor14 filingsthrough 2024
Tess IllosWilliams and Jensen, PLLC14 filingsthrough 2015
Leah KimWilliams and Jensen, PLLC7 filingsthrough 2019
Laura M SimmonsWilliams and Jensen, PLLC7 filingsthrough 2016
Hanna LaverWilliams and Jensen, PLLC6 filingsthrough 2016
Tom McdonaldBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 1997-20016 filingsthrough 2012
Susan HirschmannWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: COS, Rep. Van Hilleary and Majority Whip5 filingsthrough 2015
