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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Homeland Security
HOM
69 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
69 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 217 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1137116th CongressTo amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to repeal the authority relating to reprogramming during national emergencies.9 filingsthrough 2020
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: agricultural-retailers-association.
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.
69 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
69 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
69 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
69 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$11.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
65 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
64 filings
$11M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
60 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
58 filings
$10.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
52 filings
$9.4M 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.
116th Congress
Keep Food Safe from Glyphosate Act of 2019
9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 216116th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 230116th CongressBan Toxic Pesticides Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 641116th CongressAgricultural Worker Program Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
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.
13 filings
through 2014
Carmen StacyAgricultural Retailers Association13 filingsthrough 2012
Jonathan SamsonAgricultural Retailers Association12 filingsthrough 2011
