19 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2015 · latest filed Jun 17, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$150K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$150K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
15 filings
$150K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$70K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 33 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1214113th CongressDomestic Fuels Protection Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1462113th CongressRFS Reform Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
Paul Scott ShearerBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: for Congressional Relations (93-96)16 filingsthrough 2015
Michaela SimsBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Counsel to Sen. Ben Nelson (01-07) ; ; Legislative Director Sen. Bob Kerrey (00-01) ; ; Legislative Counsel Sen. Bob Kerrey (97-01)1 filingthrough 2009
Ryan GuthrieBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Baron Hill (02-04,07-09) ; ; Office Manager to Rep. Baron Hill (99-02)1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 3 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
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: patriot-renewable-fuel.
BUD
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$30K 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.
113th Congress
Renewable Fuel Standard Amendments Act
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 550113th CongressPhantom Fuel Reform Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 251113th CongressPhantom Fuel Reform Act6 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.6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2021113th CongressBiodiesel Tax Incentive Reform and Extension Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3187111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4674111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4940111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 864111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1627111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 828111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
