51 filings from 2 registrants · 2009–2020 · latest filed Oct 9, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$826K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$361K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: feed-the-children.
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.
22 filings
$457K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
16 filings
$468K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
10 filings
$320K on those filings
Banking
BAN
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Education
EDU
6 filings
$154K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$98K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$34K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
1 filing
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.
S. 1064115th CongressAnti-Lunch Shaming Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2269115th CongressGlobal Food Security Reauthorization Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2018
S. 384111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2311116th CongressAnti-Lunch Shaming Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
H.R. 4260115th CongressHealthy Food Access for All Americans Act1 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 6858115th CongressTo require the Treasury to take a more prominent role in coordinating AML/CFT policy and examinations across the Government, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2018
S. 1724115th CongressHealthy Food Access for All Americans Act1 filingthrough 2018
H.R. 1324111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 1869111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Kathryn Ellen PetersonKeller Mcintyre & Associates
