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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: conagra-brands-inc.
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.
BUD
42 filings
$6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
30 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
23 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
18 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
10 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
7 filings
$495K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
1 filing
$250K 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.
114th Congress
Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act
10 filingsthrough 2016
S. 511114th CongressGenetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act10 filingsthrough 2016
S. 577114th CongressCorn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 201510 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 609114th CongressSafe Food Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 703114th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act9 filingsthrough 2016
H.Res. 101114th CongressProviding for consideration of the bill (H.R. 644) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend and expand the charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 636) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend increased expensing limitations, and for other purposes.9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 287114th CongressSafe Food Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
S. 540114th CongressSchool Food Modernization Act9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 57114th CongressFood Stamp Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1244113th CongressSensible School Lunch Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249113th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
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.
