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.
Robert Van HeuvelenVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Sen. Kent Conrad23 filingsthrough 2021
Valerie WestVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Director of Cong. Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation23 filingsthrough 2021
Stephen Douglas WardVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Bingaman23 filingsthrough 2021
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 Reclamation
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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: institutional-shareholder-services.
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.
LBR
9 filings
$575K 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
Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4015115th CongressCorporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5311114th CongressCorporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act of 20164 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6258115th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
S. 3107115th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
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.
22 filingsthrough 2026
ALEXANDER NICHOLAS VOGEL srThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist17 filingsthrough 2026
Robert Irvine Van HeuvelenThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff to Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)14 filingsthrough 2024
Alexander Nicholas BlairThe Vogel Group9 filingsthrough 2024
Bradley Neal HowardThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Former Chief of Staff, Rep. Stephanie Murphy9 filingsthrough 2024
Deanna ArchuletaThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Water and Science, Department of the Interior Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior8 filingsthrough 2025
