25 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2026 · latest filed Mar 4, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$880K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$880K
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.
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
21 filings
$880K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$420K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4121119th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 9027118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
Elizabeth BennettForbes-Tate13 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee (2003); Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus (1999-2002)6 filingsthrough 2021
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate6 filingsthrough 2021
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2014-2016); Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2008); Staff Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2005)6 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: grodan-inc.
ENV
5 filings
$110K 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
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025
H.R. 9027119th CongressMilitary and Veterans Fuel Discount Act of 20261 filingthrough 2025
S. 4690119th CongressEncouraging Public Offerings Act of 20261 filingthrough 2025
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.
Yaw ThompsonForbes-Tate5 filingsthrough 2025
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Doug Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Doug Jones (2018-2019)4 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 3 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
