24 filings from 3 registrants · 2020–2025 · latest filed Jan 12, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$415K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$415K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
9 filings
$355K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
6 filings
$225K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6395116th CongressWilliam M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
S. 4049116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20213 filingsthrough 2020
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: rare-element-resources-inc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
117th Congress
No Mandates Act
2 filingsthrough 2021
S. 4049117th CongressOversight to Lower Oil Prices Act2 filingsthrough 2021
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:
5 filingsthrough 2025
Cassandra Elaine RoperCovenant Government Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2025
William R NordwindVenable LLPCovered position: ​​​House Telecommunications Subcommittee, Counsel; Representative Upton, Legislative Director, Counsel, Deputy Chief of Staff; Representative Pryce, Legislative Director and Counsel; Representative Upton, Legislative Director and Counsel3 filingsthrough 2020
Josh FinestoneVenable LLPCovered position: ​​​Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Rogers; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Graves; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Senior Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dean Heller; Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation3 filingsthrough 2020
David MullonVenable LLPCovered position: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Staff Director and Chief Counsel, General Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel3 filingsthrough 2020
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: ​​Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak3 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
