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.
Robert Van HeuvelenVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Kent Conrad48 filingsthrough 2021
Valerie WestVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Director of Cong. Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation47 filingsthrough 2021
Stephen Douglas WardVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Bingaman41 filingsthrough 2021
Valerie WestThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Natural Resources Director to Senator Gordon Smith; Professional Staff to the House Natural Resources Committee; Deputy Director of Cong. Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 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: renewable-biofuels.
fees reported
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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.
63 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
49 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
44 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$80K 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
Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1220112th CongressFulfilling U.S. Energy Leadership Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1277112th CongressBiodiesel Tax Incentive Reform and Extension Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1294112th CongressOil Independence for a Stronger America Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 617116th CongressTax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2238112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the incentives for the production of biodiesel, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th 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. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3301116th CongressTaxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
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.
20 filingsthrough 2026
Anissa RognessVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Dir. of Economic Development to Senator Conrad15 filingsthrough 2013
Deanna ArchuletaThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Water and Science, Department of the Interior Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior14 filingsthrough 2026
Robert Irvine Van HeuvelenThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff to Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)13 filingsthrough 2024
