11 filings from 1 registrant · 2022–2024 · latest filed Oct 17, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$580K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$580K
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.
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$580K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$580K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1118th CongressLower Energy Costs Act6 filingsthrough 2024
Rachel Jones HenslerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Tax Policy Dir.; Office of U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Assistant; Office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger, Legislative Correspondent13 filingsthrough 2024
Don NicklesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator13 filingsthrough 2024
Jeff ChoudhryThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Director; U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, Legislative Assistant / Staff Assistant; House Small Business Committee, Intern13 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: canoo-inc.
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$340K on those filings
Postal
POS
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$40K 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.
118th Congress
Build It in America Act
6 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1449118th CongressRESTART Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7682117th CongressEnsuring an Accurate Postal Fleet Electrification Act4 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4380117th CongressMilitary Vehicle Fleet Electrification Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2670118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 3413118th CongressAM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
S. 1669118th CongressAM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2226118th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20243 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2587118th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 7900117th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2811118th CongressLimit, Save, Grow Act of 20231 filingthrough 2023
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.
Donald Kent
The Nickles Group, LLC
Covered position: U.S. Sen Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Asst Sec; DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Deputy Asst Sec; U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Policy Adv; Office of the Asst. Maj. Leader Nickles Policy Adv.;U.S. Senator Don Nickles,Leg Asst
Greg D'AngeloThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: White House Office of Management and Budget, Associate Director of Health Programs; Senate Committee on the Budget (Sen. Gregg, Sen. Sessions, and Sen. Enzi), Professional Staff Member1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
