Velodyne Lidar, Inc. — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Velodyne Lidar, Inc.
California
20 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2022 · latest filed Oct 20, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$210K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$210K
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.
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.
Automotive Industry
AUT
15 filings
$210K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Ariel WolfVenable LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate, Office of Senator Sam Brownback; Counselor to the Deputy Secretary, Dept. of Transportation11 filingsthrough 2022
Marco M. SylvesterVenable LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor to Chief of Staff, Dept. of Transportation; Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Robert Pittenger11 filingsthrough 2022
Chan D LieuVenable LLPCovered position: Director of Government Affairs, Policy, and Strategic Planning, NHTSA11 filingsthrough 2019
David StricklandVenable LLP
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: velodyne-lidar-inc.
2 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.
Covered position: Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
10 filingsthrough 2018
Jared BombergVenable LLPCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation6 filingsthrough 2018
Sarah DonovanVenable LLP2 filingsthrough 2020
Richard Y HeggVenable LLP1 filingthrough 2020
William R NordwindVenable LLP1 filingthrough 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 Stupak1 filingthrough 2019
Judy KimVenable LLP1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
