59 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2023 · latest filed Jan 4, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$3.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.1M
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.
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-dairies-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.
37 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
35 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
28 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
16 filings
$800K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
7 filings
$350K 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.
116th Congress
DAIRY PRIDE Act
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 792116th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4996117th CongressOcean Shipping Reform Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3040115th CongressCredit Access and Inclusion Act of 20185 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2448118th CongressRenewable Natural Gas Incentive Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2609114th CongressAn original bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling standard for bioengineered foods, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 4568117th CongressRenewable Natural Gas Incentive Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 764114th CongressNational Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 20152 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.
