67 filings from 6 registrants · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$3.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.8M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.7M
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.
JAMES P MCVANEY jrRentech IncCovered position: VP Government Affairs & Aerospace Business25 filingsthrough 2013
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings ; ; Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf ; ; Graduate Fellow, US Department of State ; ; Intern, Senator John Seymour17 filingsthrough 2014
Robert William ChamberlinSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee ; ; Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee17 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 67 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: rentech-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.
25 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
24 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
19 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
17 filings
$440K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$590K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
3 filings
$90K 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.
110th Congress
Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3001110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 5136111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3635111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3807111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 1585110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
Norman Brownstein
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
11 filingsthrough 2011
Kara D'Onofrio BylerLiebman & Associates, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2012
C Kyle SimpsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP10 filingsthrough 2010
Jack JacobsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst. - Senator Orrin Hatch10 filingsthrough 2010
Rachelle Ashley SlaterSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Dir. of Leg Affairs, Council on Env. Quality ; ; Leg Affairs Specialist, US Dept. of Commerce ; ; Power Marketing Specialist, BPA ; ; Legislative Asst., Representative Jennifer Dunn8 filingsthrough 2012
Jacob Andrew JohnsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Intern - Senator Orrin Hatch8 filingsthrough 2010
Alisa FergusonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LD, House Science and Technology Committee ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bart Gordon ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Brian Baird7 filingsthrough 2013
Laura LightbodySignal Group Consulting, LLC6 filingsthrough 2014
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLC6 filingsthrough 2013
Michael J McadamsBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP6 filingsthrough 2010
Samuel WhitehornSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee5 filingsthrough 2012
Gabriel HorwitzSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Doris Matsui ; ; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Marion Berry ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike McIntyre5 filingsthrough 2011
Steven WallBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Summer Intern - Senator Thad Cochran5 filingsthrough 2009
Peter CohnSignal Group Consulting, LLC3 filingsthrough 2014
Holland PattersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy White House Liaison for DOD3 filingsthrough 2011
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy COS, Congressman Zach Wamp ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Rick Hill ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich3 filingsthrough 2011
William HarrellRentech Inc3 filingsthrough 2008
Michael W SheehySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Edward Boland2 filingsthrough 2012
Elizabeth PhillipsSignal Group Consulting, LLC2 filingsthrough 2012
Alfred MotturBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Law Clerk-Federal District Court-Bangor, ME2 filingsthrough 2011
Elizabeth M GoreBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Economist - U.S. House Committee on Budget1 filingthrough 2011
Jack JacobsonRentech Inc1 filingthrough 2010
Kyle SimpsonRentech Inc1 filingthrough 2010
James McvaneyWilliam Harrell1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 15 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
