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-seed-trade-association.
$170K
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.
BUD
55 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
33 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
23 filings
$715K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
21 filings
$945K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
14 filings
$310K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$450K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$135K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
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.
113th Congress
Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5961116th CongressStudent Apprenticeship Act of 20205 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2410113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4432113th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1244113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2013
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.
Virginia Leigh HoustonAmerican Seed Trade Association
