American Meat Institute — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Meat Institute
District of Columbia
41 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 23, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$635K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$635K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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-meat-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.
4 filings
$385K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$80K 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.
110th Congress
To extend the basic pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation.
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6454110th CongressE-Verify Extension and Expansion Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4321111th 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.
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Press Secretary, Sen. Mark Hatfield ; ; Communication Dir. House Approps Com'ttee5 filingsthrough 2011
David MarinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Dir. & Press Secy, Rep. Tom Davis5 filingsthrough 2011
Dale OakPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst & Dir. House Approps Committee5 filingsthrough 2011
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Hilda Solis ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff for Rep. Al Green ; ; Legislative Director for Rep. Joe Baca5 filingsthrough 2011
