18 filings from 2 registrants · 2021–2025 · latest filed Oct 20, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$496K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$496K
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.
Valerie WestThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Natural Resources Director to Senator Gordon Smith; Professional Staff to the House Natural Resources Committee; Deputy Director of Cong. Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation17 filingsthrough 2025
Bobby CunninghamThe Vogel Group17 filingsthrough 2025
Stephen BorgThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff - Representative Timothy V. Johnson12 filingsthrough 2024
Robert Irvine Van HeuvelenThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff to Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)
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: empirical-systems-aerospace-inc.
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.
10 filings
$290K 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.
117th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022
1 filingthrough 2022
H.R. 7776117th CongressJames M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20231 filingthrough 2022
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 filingsthrough 2024
Bradley Neal HowardThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Former Chief of Staff, Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy9 filingsthrough 2024
Shaun TaylorThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX)5 filingsthrough 2025
Robert Van HeuvelenVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Kent Conrad2 filingsthrough 2021
Valerie WestVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Natural Resources Director to Senator Gordon Smith; Professional Staff to the House Natural Resources Committee; Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation2 filingsthrough 2021
Bobby CunninghamVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLC2 filingsthrough 2021
Samuel YntemaVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLC2 filingsthrough 2021
Samuel YntemaThe Vogel Group1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
