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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
72 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$700K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2642114th CongressCommunity Lender Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.6 filingsthrough 2015
Pelham Straughn9b Group, Inc.Covered position: Policy Director, House Committee on Agriculture; Professional Staff, House Committee on Agriculture; Subcommittee Staff Director, House Committee on Agriculture; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Terry Everett51 filingsthrough 2026
David White9b Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA34 filingsthrough 2026
Jeremy PetersAmerican Farmland TrustCovered position: Staff: Rep. Pomeroy14 filingsthrough 2014
Jon SchollAmerican Farmland Trust
The filings
The 20 most recent of 74 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-farmland-trust.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
ENV
8 filings
$443K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$50K 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
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
6 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 6083112th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Covered position: Counselor to EPA Administrator for Agric. Policy
14 filingsthrough 2013
John StiernaAmerican Farmland Trust10 filingsthrough 2013
Tina May9b Group, Inc.Covered position: Policy Director Senate Agriculture Committee; Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary USDA9 filingsthrough 2015
Dennis NuxollAmerican Farmland Trust6 filingsthrough 2009
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2012
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assist. to Rep. John Boehner5 filingsthrough 2012
Ralph GrossiAmerican Farmland Trust4 filingsthrough 2008
James DaukasAmerican Farmland Trust4 filingsthrough 2008
Dorothy BondThe Russell Group, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2012
Ilan GutherzAmerican Farmland Trust3 filingsthrough 2008
Tim FrankAmerican Farmland Trust3 filingsthrough 2008
Andrew Mcelwaine (Never Lobbied)American Farmland Trust2 filingsthrough 2014
