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.
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: first-solar-inc.
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.
TRD
37 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
27 filings
$921K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
17 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
16 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
6 filings
$725K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
5 filings
$640K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$60K 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.
114th Congress
Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act
10 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1656114th CongressMaster Limited Partnerships Parity Act10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2502113th CongressRenewable Energy Parity Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3017113th CongressRenewable Energy Construction and Investment Parity Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 795113th CongressMaster Limited Partnerships Parity Act9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5423117th CongressSolar Energy Manufacturing for America Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4599111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 433111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 661111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3794116th CongressPublic Land Renewable Energy Development Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Robert Van HeuvelenVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Kent Conrad12 filingsthrough 2011
Anissa RognessVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Dir. of Economic Development to Senator Conrad12 filingsthrough 2011
William Christopher LamondThorn Run Partners7 filingsthrough 2026
Charles B. ThomasThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst, Legislative Asst, Legislative Aide, Staff Asst; Rep. Robert Pittenger7 filingsthrough 2026
Kyle Brandon SandersThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Sen. Thom Tillis; Legislative Counsel/Legislative Director & Counsel, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Aide, Rep. Andy Harris7 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer DeciFirst Solar, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Counsel (21) Sen. Finance; Professional Staff (15), Sr. Professional Staff (17-20), Sr. Counsel (21) Sen. Banking; SA (12), Leg. Corr. (13), PA (14) Sen. Richard Shelby7 filingsthrough 2026
David AdamsCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: ​Asst Secy for Legislative Affairs, Dept. of State // Dpty. Asst Secy for House Affairs, Dept. of State // SD, H. For. Aff. Cmte./Sub. on M. East & S. Asia // Prof. Staff, H. Foreign Affairs Cmte.7 filingsthrough 2021
Valerie WestVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Dir. Congr. Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation6 filingsthrough 2011
Mike CarrMission Strategies LLC (Energy)Covered position: Principal Deputy Asst Secretary, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Sr. Advisor, Director of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, Energy Dep't; Senior Counsel, Senate ENR Cmte4 filingsthrough 2026
Robert GardnerMission Strategies LLC (Energy)Covered position: Legislative Aide, Sen. Chuck Schumer4 filingsthrough 2026
Rachel MillerForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)4 filingsthrough 2021
George CooperForbes-Tate4 filingsthrough 2021
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate4 filingsthrough 2021
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (2014-2017)4 filingsthrough 2021
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind (1999-2002)4 filingsthrough 2021
John EastonVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Communications Director to Rep. Greg Ganske4 filingsthrough 2010
Yogin KothariBoundary Stone PartnersCovered position: Professional Staff on Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.3 filingsthrough 2025
Mike CarrBoundary Stone PartnersCovered position: Principal Deputy Ass't Sec., Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Sr. Advisor, Director of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, Energy Dep't; Senior Counsel, Senate Cmte on Energy and Natural Resources; Solicitor's Office, Interior Dep't.3 filingsthrough 2025
Robert GardnerBoundary Stone PartnersCovered position: Legislative staff to Senator Charles Schumer3 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 20 of 31 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
