Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Atticus, LLC
North Carolina
6 filings from 2 registrants · 2025–2026 · latest filed Jul 19, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$540K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$470K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$70K
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.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$540K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
6 filings
$540K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 7567 119th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
- H.R. 9171 119th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20271 filingthrough 2026
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.
- Scott Kuschmider Atticus, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, Subcommittee Staff Director, Professional Staff, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture; Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant, U.S. Rep. Dale E. Kildee; Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant, U.S. Rep. Ken R. Lucas5 filingsthrough 2026
- Joseph Bischoff Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2026
- Prescott Martin Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Dep General Counsel, U.S. Dept of Ag; Senior Counsel, U.S. Dept of Ag; Chief Counsel, House Ag Cmte Majority; Chief Counsel, House Ag Cmte minority [Scott] Senior Counsel, House Ag Cmte [Peterson]; Counsel, House Ag Cmte [Peterson]3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 2 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: atticus-llc.