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.
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
7 filings
$40K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
7 filings
$40K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6124110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 977111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Billy SenterKscw, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2010
David SenterKscw, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2010
Jonathan J HarschKscw, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2010
John WeinfurterKscw, Inc.Covered position: Special Assistant, Rep. Tom Barrett7 filingsthrough 2010
Larry MitchellKscw, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Admin. of Farm Programs - FSA, USDA
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: american-corn-growers-association.
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$10K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Insurance
INS
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$10K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$10K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
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.
3 filings
through 2010
H.R. 6604110th CongressCommodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3186110th CongressWarm in Winter and Cool in Summer Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3268110th CongressStop Excessive Energy Speculation Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1158111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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 filingsthrough 2009
Adrienne HickleKscw, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
Lisa MilesKscw, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
Brien BonnevilleKscw, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 2 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
