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: dean-foods-company.
$275K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
RET
31 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
25 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
23 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$310K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
7 filings
$641K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$589K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$176K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
2 filings
$355K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$276K 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.
through 2019
H.R. 2407114th CongressSchool Milk Nutrition Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3062112th CongressDairy Security Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4101115th CongressSchool Milk Nutrition Act of 20175 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.
17 filingsthrough 2011
Barbara PattersonTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Intern for Senator Bill Nelson11 filingsthrough 2020
Joel JohnsonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Communications10 filingsthrough 2011
Kimberly JamesFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Communications Director, Senator Bob Graham10 filingsthrough 2011
Bradley Austin MckinneyTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)8 filingsthrough 2017
Christy SeyfertTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: (no Senate lobbying contacts until ban expired)8 filingsthrough 2013
Paul Edward BleibergTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: LC and LA for Rep Randy Kuhl7 filingsthrough 2011
Joyce BrayboyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Melvin Watt4 filingsthrough 2009
Grant Leslie MitchellFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Senior Advisor to Secretary Tom Vilsack2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 8 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Torrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)
