30 filings from 1 registrant · 2011–2018 · latest filed Jan 23, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$770K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$770K
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
21 filings
$470K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$290K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1380112th CongressNew Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2174112th CongressA bill to exempt natural gas vehicles from certain maximum fuel economy increase standards, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2012
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg cnsl to Rep Northup, 1999; leg cnsl to Rep Inglis, 1997-99; legal intern to Spkr Gingrich, 199629 filingsthrough 2018
Susan LentAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Cnsl to Surface Trnsp Subcomm, H Comm on Trnsp & Infrastruc, 1995-Aug 9829 filingsthrough 2018
Ryan ThompsonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: CoS, Press Secy, Dep Press Secy to Sen Inhofe13 filingsthrough 2015
Sean D'ArcyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 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: vng-co.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
Light-Duty Natural Gas Vehicle Parity Act of 2018
3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3226115th CongressLight-Duty Natural Gas Vehicle Parity Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2065113th CongressAlternative Fuel Vehicle Development Act2 filingsthrough 2014
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.
6 filings
through 2015
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 005 filingsthrough 2018
CHARLIE W JOHNSON ivAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld4 filingsthrough 2018
Henry Alden TerhuneAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2013
Ed PaganoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Advsr, Sen Harkin, 2014; Dep Asst to the President for Leg Affairs and Sen Liaison, Exec Ofc of the President, 2012-14; CoS, Sen Leahy, 2005-11; Sr Cnsl, Sen Judiciary Comm, 1997-042 filingsthrough 2018
Christopher Armstrong TreanorAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Pol Analyst, Energy & Env, H Energy & Commerce Comm2 filingsthrough 2018
Bill PaxonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Mbr of Cong, 1990-991 filingthrough 2011
Arshi SiddiquiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Sr pol adv & cnsl for Spkr Pelosi, Oct 03-May 09; Ways & ; ; Means cnsl, Rep. Becerra, 1998-May 00; pol aide, Rep ; ; Clayton, Oct 97-Jan 981 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 9 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
