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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
70 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
63 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 226 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1610110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.9 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2488110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of tax on distilled spirits to its pre-1985 level.9 filingsthrough 2008
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-science-in-the-public-interest.
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.
ALC
6 filings
$457K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$380K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
3 filings
$46K on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
1 filing
$30K 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.
110th Congress
Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2007
9 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1995110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.9 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2141110th CongressAdvancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act9 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1552114th CongressPreservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 609114th CongressSafe Food Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 287114th CongressSafe Food Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 621114th CongressPreventing Antibiotic Resistance Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1150113th CongressPreservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249113th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 541113th CongressSafeguard American Food Exports Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2831110th CongressFederal Trade Commission Reauthorization Act of 20088 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20098 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5115th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Philip Emmanuel Kahn-PauliCenter for Science in the Public Interest7 filingsthrough 2025
Carlisle ClarkeVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Majority Clerk/Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Appropriations; Legislative Assistant, Senator Thad Cochran; Professional Staff/Assoc Prof Staff/Staff Asst/Leg Correspondent, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry5 filingsthrough 2021
Ben CohenCenter for Science in the Public Interest5 filingsthrough 2008
Bethany Hanna PokressCenter for Science in the Public Interest4 filingsthrough 2010
Veronica ContiCenter for Science in the Public Interest4 filingsthrough 2008
Jennifer SheldonCenter for Science in the Public Interest4 filingsthrough 2008
Herschel V HawleyVan Scoyoc Associates3 filingsthrough 2021
Caroline A Smith DewaalCenter for Science in the Public Interest3 filingsthrough 2009
Lauren MclarneyCenter for Science in the Public Interest3 filingsthrough 2009
Alexandra Cory LewinCenter for Science in the Public Interest3 filingsthrough 2009
Michael JacobsonCenter for Science in the Public Interest3 filingsthrough 2008
Joy JohansonCenter for Science in the Public Interest3 filingsthrough 2008
Graham HallVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Intern, Senator Jeff Sessions; Intern, Congressman Robert Aderholt2 filingsthrough 2021
Arianne CorbettCenter for Science in the Public Interest2 filingsthrough 2010
Michelle FormanCenter for Science in the Public Interest2 filingsthrough 2009
Cal FeldmanCenter for Science in the Public Interest1 filingthrough 2026
Daniel BelhumeurCenter for Science in the Public Interest1 filingthrough 2010
Ona BalkusCenter for Science in the Public Interest1 filingthrough 2009
Holly HenryCenter for Science in the Public Interest1 filingthrough 2008
Jennifer Lisa AmesCenter for Science in the Public Interest1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 25 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
