50 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2023 · latest filed Oct 19, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
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.
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
30 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
13 filings
$200K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4731115th CongressTo extend the retained use estate for the Caneel Bay resort in St. John, United States Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 714111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1143110th CongressTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands in Virgin Islands National Park, and for other purposes.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Alan L MintzVan Ness Feldman, LLP20 filingsthrough 2021
Jonathan SimonVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Frank Lautenberg19 filingsthrough 2021
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter12 filingsthrough 2019
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
The filings
The 20 most recent of 50 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: cbi-acquisitions-llc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
5 filingsthrough 2008
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.
12 filings
through 2019
Howard J FeldmanVan Ness Feldman, LLP10 filingsthrough 2010
Brian BallardBallard Partners9 filingsthrough 2021
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.9 filingsthrough 2021
Justin J. SayfieBallard PartnersCovered position: Commissioner, Commission on White House Fellows.9 filingsthrough 2021
Richard A AgnewVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: (1985-1991)7 filingsthrough 2010
Ben Lee McmakinVan Ness Feldman, LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Thomas C RobertsVan Ness Feldman, LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Norman D DicksVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives (1977-2012)4 filingsthrough 2018
WILLIAM J VAN NESS jrVan Ness Feldman, LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
J Curtis RichVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: NR & Energy Counsel, Sen.Max Baucus, 1992-962 filingsthrough 2008
Christopher BohanonVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Leg.Dir., Rep. Glenn English (D-OK) (1987-1994)1 filingthrough 2010
John IaniVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Regional Administrator, Region X, EPA, 2001-041 filingthrough 2009
