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.
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: alabama-farmers-federation.
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.
CAW
40 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
40 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
35 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
29 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
26 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
23 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Insurance
INS
16 filings
$1M on those filings
Animals
ANI
15 filings
$1M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
8 filings
$529K 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.
through 2010
S. 1028119th CongressHoney Integrity Act4 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1255119th CongressCormorant Relief Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2025
S. 3229117th CongressCattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 872112th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5088111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3098110th CongressTo amend title 49, United States Code, to provide certain exemptions to drivers of intrastate commercial motor vehicles engaged in agricultural purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
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.
