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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
90 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
63 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 45 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2238112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the incentives for the production of biodiesel, and for other purposes.10 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 703114th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act9 filingsthrough 2016
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: national-biodiesel-board.
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.
40 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
11 filings
$516K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$160K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$388K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$20K 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
Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 2015
9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1461113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1462113th CongressRFS Reform Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1482113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Amendments Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 259113th CongressEnergy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 550113th CongressPhantom Fuel Reform Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 796113th CongressTo require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to use the commercially available volume of cellulosic biofuel in setting requirements for the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 875113th CongressTo provide for a comprehensive assessment of the scientific and technical research on the implications of the use of mid-level ethanol blends, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 251113th CongressPhantom Fuel Reform Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 344113th CongressA bill to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from approving the introduction into commerce of gasoline that contains greater than 10-volume-percent ethanol, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 21114th CongressTo provide for a comprehensive assessment of the scientific and technical research on the implications of the use of mid-level ethanol blends, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 704114th CongressRFS Reform Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1195113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Repeal Act6 filingsthrough 2014
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.
BOB R BROOKS jrAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey
28 filingsthrough 2016
James Dean MassieAlpine Group Partners, LLC.28 filingsthrough 2016
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 87-08 Counsel, House Nat. Resources Cmte22 filingsthrough 2018
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 87-02 CoS to Rep. Benjamin Cardin21 filingsthrough 2019
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 89-92 Spec Asst to Asst Sec. Dept of Labor18 filingsthrough 2018
WILLIAM SMITH jrSextons CreekCovered position: Chief of Staff - Congressman Mike Pence15 filingsthrough 2020
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)14 filingsthrough 2012
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)13 filingsthrough 2011
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)13 filingsthrough 2011
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Intern Rep. Walter Jones (summer 1995)13 filingsthrough 2011
Labrenda Garrett-NelsonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
