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: poet-llc.
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.
AGR
140 filings
$33.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
70 filings
$24.4M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
67 filings
$27.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
60 filings
$26.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
49 filings
$22.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
37 filings
$16.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
15 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
13 filings
$9.4M on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
6 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
6 filings
$4.7M 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
To 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.
17 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1461113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act15 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1482113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Amendments Act15 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 550113th CongressPhantom Fuel Reform Act of 201315 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1736114th CongressTo amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for the Reid vapor pressure limitations under such Act.14 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1239114th CongressA bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for the Reid vapor pressure limitations under that Act.14 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1462113th CongressRFS Reform Act of 201313 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.13 filingsthrough 2014
S. 251113th CongressPhantom Fuel Reform Act13 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.13 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 259113th CongressEnergy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act12 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 848117th CongressGREEN Act of 202111 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Covered position: Legislative Asst, Rep Jim Moran (98-00)
Rashid HallawayVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh15 filingsthrough 2026
Tim UrbanBracewell LLP15 filingsthrough 2026
Adam TarrInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr Pro Staff, Sen Cmte on Ag, Nutrition & Forestry 19-22; Leg Asst, Sen Casey 17-19; Sr Advisor, USDA, Off of the Sec 16-17; COS, USDA, Off for Food Safety 14-16; Sen Specter: Leg Asst 09-10, Leg Aide 08-09, Leg Correspondent 07-09, Staff Asst 06-0714 filingsthrough 2026
Eric BohlBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff Vicky Hartzler - Legislative Director Vicky Hartzler-Chief of Staff Jason Smith12 filingsthrough 2026
Rob SkjonsbergPoet, LLCCovered position: VP of Government Affairs12 filingsthrough 2012
Liam P DonovanBracewell LLP9 filingsthrough 2025
Kevin YoderVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Intern, Rep. Jerry Moran; Special Asst, Office of Counternarcotics, U.S. Dept of Defense9 filingsthrough 2024
Martina L. BradfordBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor to Sen. Harry Reid (06-10)9 filingsthrough 2015
Mary Elizabeth StantonInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst, Sen. Kohl (2006-2007); Policy Adv, Sen. Aging Comm. (2004-2006); Leg. Asst, Rep. Weiner (2004); Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Kohl (2003-2004); Staff Asst, Sen. Kohl (2002-2003); Intern, Rep. Gephardt (2001); Intern, Rep. Dingell (2000)8 filingsthrough 2024
David NatonskiVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff: Rep. Greg Murphy, Rep. Denver Riggleman, Rep. Kevin Yoder, Rep. Trey Radel; Deputy Chief of Staff, Communications Director: Rep. Aaron Schock; Press Secretary, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent: Rep. Christopher Shays8 filingsthrough 2024
Noah MarineInvariant LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (2013-2017); Leg. Asst, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (2011-2013)7 filingsthrough 2024
Melissa SchulmanBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assistant to Rep. Thomas Manton (88)7 filingsthrough 2013
Will BrewsterVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Senator Richard Shelby6 filingsthrough 2026
Patrice WilloughbyInvariant LLCCovered position: Dep Assoc Admin, Intergovt Affairs Office, GSA; Exec Dir, CBC, Rep. Barbara Lee; Leg Asst, Counsel, Chief/Staff, Rep. Tubbs Jones6 filingsthrough 2018
Anne PalisiInvariant LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Diane Black; Deputy Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Director Special Projects, Education and the Workforce Committee6 filingsthrough 2018
James Dean MassieAlpine Group Partners, LLC.6 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 44 of 53 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
