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-wessel-group-incorporated.
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 $18.7M in fees and $0 in expenses.
ENV · 8 clients
134 filings
$4.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 5 clients
74 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 3 clients
33 filings
$1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 3 clients
20 filings
$260K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 2 clients
18 filings
$290K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 2 clients
16 filings
$440K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 2 clients
13 filings
$370K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 2 clients
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 2 clients
5 filings
$120K 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.
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this firm's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Alex WoodsCovered position: Asst. General Counsel, OGC, USTR4 filings2 clients · through 2012
Covered positions · 6 of 7 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.
Concord Resources Limited
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2025
Rare Element Resources Ltd.
Canada
1 filing
through 2020
Ferroglobe PLC (Showing Ownership Percentage in Globe Metallurgical, Inc.)
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2018
Grupo Villar Mir, S.A.U (Showing Ownership Percentage in Ferroglobe PLC)
Spain
1 filing
through 2018
Techint S.P.A. (via Ownership Interest in Tenaris S.A.)
Italy
1 filing
through 2017
Tenaris S.A. (Ownership Interest in Maverick Tube)
Luxembourg
1 filing
through 2017
Sappi Limited
South Africa
1 filing
through 2015
Arcelor Mittal
Luxembourg
1 filing
through 2009
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.
