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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$340K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$340K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3246111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Robert Van HeuvelenVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Kent Conrad10 filingsthrough 2012
Anissa RognessVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Dir. of Economic Development to Senator Conrad10 filingsthrough 2012
Valerie WestVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Dir. Congr. Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation7 filingsthrough 2012
John EastonVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Communications Director to Rep. Greg Ganske
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: the-washington-tax-group.
8 filings
$340K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$340K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$260K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$260K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4399111th 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. 1679111th 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
S. 1796111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2854111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 651111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 500112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the manufacturer limitation on the number of new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles eligible for credit.3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 232112th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the manufacturer limitation on the number of new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles eligible for credit.3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 298112th CongressCharging America Forward Act3 filingsthrough 2012
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.
4 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 4 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
