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.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
70 filings
$900K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
28 filings
$380K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 60 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1628118th CongressCBD Product Safety and Standardization Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1629118th CongressHemp and Hemp-Derived CBD Consumer Protection and Market Stabilization Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
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-herbal-products-association.
18 filings
$250K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$20K 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.
117th Congress
Hemp and Hemp-Derived CBD Consumer Protection and Market Stabilization Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 134114th CongressIndustrial Hemp Farming Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1698117th CongressHemp Access and Consumer Safety Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1175115th CongressHealth Savings Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 403115th CongressHealth Savings Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 525114th CongressIndustrial Hemp Farming Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 809113th CongressGenetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1654117th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include certain over-the-counter dietary supplement products as qualified medical expenses.6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2100117th CongressPersonal Care Products Safety Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 444114th CongressExpanding Care for Veterans Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1425113th CongressDietary Supplement Labeling Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5214117th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit expenditures from health savings accounts, flexible spending arrangements, and health reimbursement arrangements for dietary supplements.5 filingsthrough 2022
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.
