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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
61 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 65 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1166116th CongressUSE IT Act8 filingsthrough 2020
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: carbon-utilization-research-council-formerly-coal-utilization-research-council.
ENG
59 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
13 filings
$355K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
10 filings
$505K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
9 filings
$330K 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.
116th Congress
EFFECT Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 383116th CongressUSE IT Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 407116th CongressCarbon Capture Modernization Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3607116th CongressFossil Energy Research and Development Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1685116th CongressLaunching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1460115th CongressEnergy and Natural Resources Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1535115th CongressFUTURE Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2776111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6049111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6756111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3132111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3208111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 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.
Janet Anderson
Van Ness Feldman, LLP
Covered position: Director, Industry Policy, WHCCTF, 1998-2001
24 filingsthrough 2026
Michael WeinerVan Ness Feldman, LLP17 filingsthrough 2022
Luke SullivanVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Republican Conference (2019-2020); Legislative Correspondent, House Republican Conference (2020-2021); Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Liz Cheney WY-AL (2021-2022).11 filingsthrough 2026
Lucas AgnewVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senate Committee on Appropriations (2015-2017); Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations (2017-2024); Subcommittee Clerk/Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations (2020-2021/2023-2024).9 filingsthrough 2026
Carlos FloresVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legal Intern, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry (2022); Legislative Intern, U.S. Representative Roger Marshall (2018); Legislative Intern, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (2018).7 filingsthrough 2026
Grant KerrVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of Rep. Norma Torres (2015-2017); Senior Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Ron Barber (2013-2014); Legislative Aide, Office of Senator Charles Schumer (2009-2013).7 filingsthrough 2025
Baxter CarrVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (2015-2022), Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (2022-2025).3 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas GreeneVan Ness Feldman, LLP1 filingthrough 2008
