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.
Agriculture
AGR
103 filings
$3.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
98 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 110 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1608118th CongressConsumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 10545119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Tom Douglas SellCombest, Sell & Associates, LLC63 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff HarrisonCombest, Sell & Associates, LLC63 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte52 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph BischoffCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.43 filingsthrough 2026
Larry CombestCombest, Sell & Associates, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 128 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: national-sorghum-producers.
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.
42 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
38 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
28 filings
$880K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$40K 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.
6 filings
through 2026
H.R. 1346119th CongressTo amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1542117th CongressRenewable Fuel Infrastructure Investment and Market Expansion Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4410117th CongressYear-Round Fuel Choice Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5089117th CongressNext Generation Fuels Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5305117th CongressExtending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5305118th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1157 West Mission Avenue in Escondido, California, as the "Captain E. Royce Williams Post Office Building".5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 7155117th CongressHome Front Energy Independence Act4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20184 filingsthrough 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.
Robert Van HeuvelenVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Kent Conrad7 filingsthrough 2013
Valerie WestVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: National Resources Director to Sen. Gordon Smith; Professional Staff, House Natural Resources Com.; Deputy Dir. Congr. Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation7 filingsthrough 2013
Stephen Douglas WardVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Bingaman7 filingsthrough 2013
