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.
Agriculture
AGR
67 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
65 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 137 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3399116th CongressTo amend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003 to include California in the program, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 897114th CongressZika Vector Control Act8 filingsthrough 2016
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: california-agricultural-commissioners-and-sealers-association.
ENV
61 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
46 filings
$860K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
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.
115th Congress
Respect State Marijuana Laws Act of 2017
7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 776119th CongressNutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 953115th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 872112th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2936115th CongressResilient Federal Forests Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2647114th CongressEmergency Wildfire and Forest Management Act of 20165 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 935113th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2107116th CongressProtecting America's Food and Agriculture Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1673112th CongressSafeguarding American Agriculture Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1101111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
