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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
6 filings
$260K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1274110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts awarded to qui tam plaintiffs.8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2108110th CongressHuman and Pet Food Safety Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
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: grocery-manufactuers-association-food-manufactuers-association.
TRD
6 filings
$260K 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.
110th Congress
Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007
8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3580110th CongressFood and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3624110th CongressConsumer Food Safety Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1082110th CongressFood and Drug Administration Revitalization Act8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2418110th CongressEnding Agricultural Threats: Safeguarding America's Food for Everyone (EAT SAFE) Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5904110th CongressSafe FEAST Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1332111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 875111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 999111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 3485110th CongressTRACE Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5905110th CongressCARS Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
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.
through 2009
Bill AndresenDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Rick Boucher2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
