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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$88K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
12 filings
$36K on those filings
Insurance
INS
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 7610116th CongressMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7996116th CongressRural Equal Aid Act3 filingsthrough 2020
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: center-for-rural-affairs.
fees reported
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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.
1 filing
$10K 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.
S. 368112th CongressA bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to suspend a limitation on the period for which certain borrowers are eligible for guaranteed assistance.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5990111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3606111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3240113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2013
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
