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.
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-frozen-food-institute.
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.
LBR
83 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
82 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
81 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
63 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
16 filings
$440K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$216K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$10K 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
H.R. 1332111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 875111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
S. 560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
S.J.Res. 8114th CongressA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to representation case procedures.11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1799111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2414111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2425111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3187111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1038111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.10 filingsthrough 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.
Gordon M SpeedAmerican Frozen Food Institute17 filingsthrough 2016
Brandon LippsCaprock Strategies, LLCCovered position: Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition & Consumer Services, USDA; Counsel & Senior Professional Staff for House Committee on Agriculture.15 filingsthrough 2026
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner13 filingsthrough 2019
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry12 filingsthrough 2019
Robert L GarfieldAmerican Frozen Food Institute12 filingsthrough 2010
Jason BassettAmerican Frozen Food Institute12 filingsthrough 2010
Matthew FoleyAmerican Frozen Food Institute10 filingsthrough 2020
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern9 filingsthrough 2019
Kraig R NaaszAmerican Frozen Food Institute9 filingsthrough 2011
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies6 filingsthrough 2019
