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
16 filings
$470K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2419111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2118110th CongressNational Institute of Food and Agriculture Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: N/A18 filingsthrough 2012
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: N/A18 filingsthrough 2012
Edward BarronThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Senate Envir. and Public Works Comm - Dep. COS14 filingsthrough 2011
William LesherThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: N/A
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: coalition-for-plant-and-life-sciences.
6 filings
through 2008
S. 971110th CongressNational Institute of Food and Agriculture Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1406111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5973112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 6083112th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
S. 2375112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2012
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
6 filings
through 2008
Bradley BaileyThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
