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.
H.R. 4368118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 filingsthrough 2024
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-u-s-llc.
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.
14 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
11 filings
$930K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$340K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$290K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
4 filings
$360K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$100K 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.
118th Congress
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
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.
The Peterson Group Inc
Covered position: Member U.S. House of Representatives
13 filingsthrough 2026
Elliott A PetersonThe Peterson Group Inc13 filingsthrough 2026
Christian MorganHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Congresswoman Wagner - Chief of Staff12 filingsthrough 2025
Brian BallardBallard Partners8 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.8 filingsthrough 2026
James ByrumRural and Ag Policy Consultants6 filingsthrough 2025
Bryan LanzaMercury Public Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2026
John LonerganMercury Public Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2026
