Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 16 clients
202 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 14 clients
176 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Defense
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
George A Ramonas528 filings33 clients · through 2024
Robert J Dotchin375 filings17 clients · through 2020
Robert E MillsCovered position: Former Professional Staff Mbr., Senate Appropriati166 filings19 clients · through 2013
Suzy Glucksman92 filings12 clients · through 2015
Harry J KatrichisCovered position: Chief Counsel, House Committee on Small Business55 filings8 clients · through 2013
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Urenco, Ltd.
United Kingdom
11 filings
through 2011
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 959 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: the-advocacy-group.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $22.6M in fees and $0 in expenses.
DEF · 13 clients
150 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 16 clients
145 filings
$4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 8 clients
145 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 6 clients
119 filings
$4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 15 clients
115 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 9 clients
98 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS · 3 clients
85 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Small Business
SMB · 6 clients
75 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 10 clients
71 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 9 clients
68 filings
$1.5M 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 money 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.
Jon L Boisclair30 filings3 clients · through 2013
John M Nugent27 filings5 clients · through 2009
Vicki J HicksCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Senator Quentin N. Burdi ; ; Chief of Staff for Rep. Karan English ; ; Deputy Administrator, Commodity Operations USDA ; ; Assistant Deputy Administrator, Commodity Operatio19 filings4 clients · through 2011
Sean D Bertran3 filings1 client · through 2012
William Bartolone3 filings1 client · through 2011
Covered positions · 3 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
