43 filings from 3 registrants · 2016–2024 · latest filed Jan 17, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.9M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
38 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
35 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 764114th CongressNational Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Patricia Louise DeloatcheSidley Austin LLPCovered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Orrin Hatch; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Bilirakis20 filingsthrough 2023
Tracey LaturnerSidley Austin LLPCovered position: Professional Staff, U.S. House Appropriations Committee; Administrative Aide, U.S. House Appropriations Committee; Scheduler, Office Manager U.S. House of Representatives Congressman Jim Bunn17 filingsthrough 2023
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: aquabounty-technologies-inc.
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.
SCI
31 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Animals
ANI
26 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
5 filings
$300K 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.
13 filingsthrough 2018
Grant Leslie MitchellFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Aide for Senator Tom Daschle; Legislative Director for Senator Ken Salazar; Senior Advisor to Secretary Tom Vilsack8 filingsthrough 2023
Kerry O'BrienFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Bill Keating; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bill Keating; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bill Keating; Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Bill Delahunt.8 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew VlasatyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Congressional Liaison, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Professional Staff, Senior Professional Staff, Senate Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Committee; Policy Advisor, Senator Roy Blunt5 filingsthrough 2023
Peter J RoskamSidley Austin LLPCovered position: Member of Congress, 2007-20194 filingsthrough 2022
Karla ThiemanFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff to the Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture; Chief of Staff for the Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture;; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Agriculture Committee.4 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
