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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
43 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Agriculture
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 64 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 880114th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2673118th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
Gregory NickersonThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Tax Counsel, Ways and Means Committee; Staff Director, Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee70 filingsthrough 2026
Brian DiffellThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Policy Adv., Sen. Rep. Conference: Leg. Director Sen. Blunt; Leg. Dir. Rep. Blunt; Sr. Policy Adv. Rep. Maj. Whip; Sr. Policy Adv. House Maj. Whip; Research Analyst, House Maj. Whip; Spec. Asst to the Chief Deputy Whip Blunt41 filingsthrough 2023
Jan FowlerThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Leg. Asst, Sen. Voinovich; Leg. Assistant, Leg. Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern from Rep. McCrery37 filingsthrough 2019
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: bayer-corporation-formerly-known-as-monsanto-company.
AGR
8 filings
$380K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$90K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$40K 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.
112th Congress
American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2011
6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1430114th CongressPermanent CFC Look-Through Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
S. 727112th CongressBipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 422111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2576114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1577112th CongressGROWTH Act4 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Zachary Austin PriceThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff assistant to Sen. Coats
19 filingsthrough 2026
Kelli BriggsThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, 12th Congressional District of Ohio; Chief of Staff, D.C. Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern from Rep. Tiberi15 filingsthrough 2021
James Max PedrottiThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Carol Miller6 filingsthrough 2026
Noushin JahanianThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Policy Advisor, Senate Democratic Policy Comm.6 filingsthrough 2011
Barbara AngusThe Washington Tax & Public Policy Group4 filingsthrough 2008
Nancy Ellen MccarthyThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Tax Counsel, Committee on Finance1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
