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
25 filings
$3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
17 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 48 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4368118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20249 filingsthrough 2024
Greg LanklerThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Professional Staff, House Appropriations Committee; Legislative Director, Rep. C.W. Bill Young12 filingsthrough 2026
Bg WrightThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Professional Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations; Professional Staff, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations
The filings
The 20 most recent of 40 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-solutions-action.
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.
BUD
14 filings
$720K on those filings
Defense
DEF
11 filings
$660K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$40K 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.
118th Congress
Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act
7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2019118th CongressEnding Agricultural Trade Suppression Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2131118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20246 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7130118th CongressFAIR Labels Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2127118th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2321118th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20244 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3694118th CongressSWIMS Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6780119th CongressProducing Real Opportunities for Technology and Entrepreneurs Investing in Nutrition Act3 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2296119th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 filingsthrough 2025
S. 3528119th CongressProducing Real Opportunities for Technology and Entrepreneurs Investing in Nutrition Act3 filingsthrough 2026
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.
12 filingsthrough 2026
David VoormanFood Solutions ActionCovered position: White House Office of Records Management, Intern and Records Analyst; Rep. Virginia Foxx, Intern, Legislative Correspondent, and Legislative Assistant/Legislative Counsel11 filingsthrough 2026
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant for Rep. John Boehner6 filingsthrough 2024
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 Council6 filingsthrough 2024
WILLIAM IRBY jrCapitol South, LLC4 filingsthrough 2025
Spencer OrensteinFood Solutions ActionCovered position: Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, and Staff Assistant for former Rep. Jeff Miller3 filingsthrough 2025
Ben MoselyFood Solutions ActionCovered position: Professional Staff & Senior Professional Staff, US Senate Committee for Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Saxby Chambliss.3 filingsthrough 2023
Eric DeebleBrandywine Strategy GroupCovered position: Deputy Under Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary, USDA; Senior Policy Adviser and Congressional Policy Fellow, Sen. Gillibrand2 filingsthrough 2026
Alan DarerFood Solutions Action2 filingsthrough 2022
Eric DeebleFood Solutions ActionCovered position: Deputy Under Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary, USDA; Senior Policy Adviser and Congressional Policy Fellow, Sen. Gillibrand1 filingthrough 2026
Leah CrowderFood Solutions ActionCovered position: U.S. State Department, Youth Ambassador1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 12 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
