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: ceres.
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.
10 filings
$75K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 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.
112th Congress
Smart Energy Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1000112th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 761113th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 795113th CongressMaster Limited Partnerships Parity Act1 filingthrough 2013
S. 3275112th CongressMaster Limited Partnerships Parity Act1 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 890111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
7 filings
through 2010
Callie EidebergThe Vogel GroupCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Senior Advisor, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA; Senior Analyst, Office of Congressional Relations, USDA3 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 2 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
