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: dairy-producers-of-new-mexico.
$10K
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.
12 filings
$80K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
9 filings
$50K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$20K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
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.
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5038117th CongressPreserving Direct Seller Independence Act2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 3164116th CongressMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5038116th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5410116th CongressInterstate Milk Freedom Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1034115th CongressAgricultural Worker Program Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
S. 951115th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1140114th CongressFederal Water Quality Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6083112th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4088110th CongressSAVE Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1147118th CongressWhole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 20231 filingthrough 2024
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.
