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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
22 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$360K 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.
S. 1251117th CongressGrowing Climate Solutions Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.25 filingsthrough 2026
Samantha BuchalterThe Russell Group, Inc.25 filingsthrough 2026
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies12 filingsthrough 2023
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern4 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: food-and-agriculture-climate-alliance.
spend on filings that named this issue
118th Congress
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025
3 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9027118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4690118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4842118th CongressTribal Access to Electronic Evidence Act3 filingsthrough 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.
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
3 filingsthrough 2021
Alex SmithThe Russell Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2026
Ashlee Nicole JohnsonThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Mike Ross; Executive Assistant, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Legislative Analyst, White House Liaison, Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary, USDA; Policy Assistant, Domestic Policy Council2 filingsthrough 2022
Kate ThompsonThe Russell Group, Inc.1 filingthrough 2024
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
