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: american-farm-bureau-fed.
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
$42.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
69 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
69 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
68 filings
$42M on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
66 filings
$40.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
66 filings
$40.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
64 filings
$39.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
62 filings
$38.7M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
62 filings
$38.5M 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 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.
114th Congress
Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act
10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1773114th CongressResidue Entries and Streamlining Trade Act10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2122114th CongressFor the relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2542114th CongressBereaved Borrowers' Bill of Rights Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2575114th CongressTo amend the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 to postpone a scheduled increase in the minimum wage applicable to American Samoa.10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2641114th CongressHorseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2919114th CongressTo authorize 2 additional district judgeships for the district of Colorado.10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3367114th CongressStephanie Tubbs Jones Assets for Independence Reauthorization Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 367114th CongressCampaign Sunlight Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4114th CongressReserved for the Speaker.10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4874114th CongressPrevent ABUSE Act of 201610 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4957114th CongressTo designate the Federal building located at 99 New York Avenue, N.E., in the District of Columbia as the "Ariel Rios Federal Building".10 filingsthrough 2016
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.
through 2026
Cody LyonAmerican Farm Bureau FedCovered position: legislative intern for Senator Campbell in 199758 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew Thomas WalmsleyAmerican Farm Bureau Fed56 filingsthrough 2023
Paul SchlegelAmerican Farm Bureau Fed56 filingsthrough 2020
RONALD JOSEPH KARNEY jrAmerican Farm Bureau Fed56 filingsthrough 2020
Veronica Nigh SwerdlowAmerican Farm Bureau Fed53 filingsthrough 2022
Dale W MooreAmerican Farm Bureau Fed52 filingsthrough 2022
Danielle D'Ana QuistAmerican Farm Bureau Fed47 filingsthrough 2018
Mary Kay ThatcherAmerican Farm Bureau Fed45 filingsthrough 2018
Bob YoungAmerican Farm Bureau FedCovered position: Chief Economist, Senate Ag Comm.42 filingsthrough 2017
Travis CushmanAmerican Farm Bureau Fed33 filingsthrough 2026
John NewtonAmerican Farm Bureau FedCovered position: Chief Economist, Senate Agriculture Committee28 filingsthrough 2026
Kristi J BoswellAmerican Farm Bureau Fed27 filingsthrough 2017
John Daniel AndersonAmerican Farm Bureau FedCovered position: N/A27 filingsthrough 2016
Shelby Lynne HagenauerAmerican Farm Bureau FedCovered position: Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation25 filingsthrough 2026
Kelli LudlumAmerican Farm Bureau Fed24 filingsthrough 2014
Courtney BriggsAmerican Farm Bureau FedCovered position: Director of Legislative Correspondence, Sen. Lindsey Graham21 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel A. KiefferAmerican Farm Bureau Fed21 filingsthrough 2025
