121 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2024 · latest filed Jan 20, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$8.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$4.9M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.4M
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.
Anthony HulenRenewable Energy Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Secretary, Rep. Jay Dickey41 filingsthrough 2022
Lauren BazelAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Senior Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. John Kerry; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. William Cowan31 filingsthrough 2022
BOB R BROOKS jrCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: ​Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey.25 filingsthrough 2022
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLC Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 121 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-energy-group-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.
TRD
30 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
30 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
20 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
16 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
14 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
12 filings
$988K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$928K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$863K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$863K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$295K 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.
116th Congress
Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Act of 2019
11 filingsthrough 2020
S. 617116th CongressTax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 848117th CongressGREEN Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2118117th CongressClean Energy for America Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5180114th CongressFood and Fuel Consumer Protection Act of 20166 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5240114th CongressBiodiesel Tax Incentive Reform and Extension Act of 20166 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3301116th CongressTaxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6444112th CongressStop RIN Fraud Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2383116th CongressSecure Communities and Safe Schools Act1 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 88116th CongressKnife Owners’ Protection Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
S. 944116th CongressStrengthening American Transportation Security Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 88115th CongressShiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act1 filingthrough 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.
Covered position:
21 filingsthrough 2021
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC20 filingsthrough 2021
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.17 filingsthrough 2023
BOB R BROOKS jrAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey14 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan Waite HackettRenewable Energy Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Clerk, S. EPW Committee13 filingsthrough 2015
Shimon SteinWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; Program Manager, US Department of Justice; Legislative Correspondent, Senator John Ashcroft; Paid Intern, Represenative Robert Aderholt12 filingsthrough 2019
James Dean MassieAlpine Group Partners, LLC.12 filingsthrough 2016
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th district; Ranking member, House Ways and Means Committee; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation.9 filingsthrough 2018
David BridgesCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. John Barrasso; Tax Counsel, Rep. Tom Reed.7 filingsthrough 2024
Jack Macgregor CampbellCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Senate Finance Cmte.; General Counsel, Senate Finance Cmte.; Leg. Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Counsel/ Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Asst. U.S. Trade Rep. for Congressional Affairs, President Obama.7 filingsthrough 2023
Robert DiamondCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, President Barack Obama.6 filingsthrough 2023
Sara TaylorRenewable Energy Group, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Assistant to the President6 filingsthrough 2009
Charles BarnettAlpine Group Partners, LLC.6 filingsthrough 2009
Ashley DavisWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President4 filingsthrough 2017
Kristi RemingtonWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice; Senior Counsel, House Government Reform Committee1 filingthrough 2017
Cynthia BrownWest Front Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Ron Kind1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 17 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
