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
70 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
22 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2117th CongressReserved for the Speaker.8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3042117th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20228 filingsthrough 2022
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-rice-commission.
RES
8 filings
$480K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
7 filings
$370K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
2 filings
$120K 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
Moving Forward Act
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3042116th CongressSmall Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3068115th CongressAll-American Flag Act3 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Ashlee Nicole JohnsonThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Mike Ross; Executive Assistant, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Legislative Analyst, White House Liaison, Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary, USDA; Policy Assistant, Domestic Policy Council16 filingsthrough 2026
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry16 filingsthrough 2021
Edward BarronThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Senate Envir. and Public Works Comm - Dep. COS12 filingsthrough 2011
Danielle Russell BeckThe Russell Group, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2016
William LesherThe Russell Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies3 filingsthrough 2021
Samantha BuchalterThe Russell Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2018
Dorothy BondThe Russell Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2012
Laura L WoodThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Jud. Comm. Legal Intern; Rep. Moore Intern2 filingsthrough 2011
Savannah BlockThe Russell Group, Inc.1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 8 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
