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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
34 filings
$630K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
31 filings
$275K 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 — 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. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
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: florida-tomato-exchange.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
Securing America's Future Act of 2018
4 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.
Brian BallardBallard Partners6 filingsthrough 2026
William RussellBallard PartnersCovered position: Scheduler/Executive Aide to U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee 2014-2015; Confidential Advisor, USDA 2017; Special Assistant to the President, The White House 2017-2021; Transition Staff, Office of the 45th President of the U.S., GSA 2021-20236 filingsthrough 2026
Christopher TraciThe Wessel Group IncorporatedCovered position: Staff Assistant, H. Government Reform Committee6 filingsthrough 2013
Brad BurlesonBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby; Staff Assistant, U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw4 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan CordoneCordone Consulting LLCCovered position: Dpty Under Secretary of Agriculture, Dpty General Counsel USDA, Chief Counsel Senate Agriculture Committee, SVP and Gen Counsel US Ex-Im Bank, and General Counsel House Energy and Commerce Committee.3 filingsthrough 2023
Karen WilliamsKaren WilliamsCovered position: Former Congressmen Goodlatte, Putnam and Southerland3 filingsthrough 2021
William FrymoyerStewart and Stewart3 filingsthrough 2017
JOHN M HIMMELBERG srNossaman LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
