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.
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: herbalife-international-of-america-inc.
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.
HCR
62 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
34 filings
$5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
32 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
23 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
20 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
17 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$420K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
3 filings
Banking
BAN
2 filings
$180K 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.
116th Congress
Preserving Direct Seller Independence Act
9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2010112th CongressFamily and Retirement Health Investment Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1107110th CongressDietary Supplement and Healthy Meal Replacement Tax Parity Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3409115th CongressAnti-Pyramid Promotional Scheme Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3406111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3624110th CongressConsumer Food Safety Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1098112th CongressFamily and Retirement Health Investment Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4469114th CongressHealth Savings Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2499114th CongressHealth Savings Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
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 2015
Thomas J DowneyDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.27 filingsthrough 2015
Diane TurpinHerbalife International of America, Inc.23 filingsthrough 2014
Angela ArboledaHerbalife International of America, Inc.Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor for Latino Affairs for Senator Reid21 filingsthrough 2019
Moses MercadoOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff, Gephardt; Chief of Staff, Green19 filingsthrough 2017
Dean AguillenOgr19 filingsthrough 2017
Eric RosenInvariant LLCCovered position: Asst US Atty, N. Dist of CA, Dept of Justice (2006-2007) Counsel, Sen. Judiciary Comm (2001-2006); Leg. Dir, Rep. Anthony Weiner (1999-2001); Dep Dir, Dept of Justice Office of Intergovt Affair (1997-1999); Leg. Asst, Rep. Chet Atkins (1992-1993)16 filingsthrough 2021
Heather PodestaInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui; Counsel, Representative Earl Pomeroy; Legislative Fellow, Senator Bill Bradley; Research Assistant, Congressional Budget Office16 filingsthrough 2019
Michael Dee BuchananOgrCovered position: COSRepConfCOS/DCOS/LDHensarlingDirGramm14 filingsthrough 2017
Patrice WilloughbyInvariant LLCCovered position: Dep Assoc Admin, Intergovt Affairs Office, GSA; Exec Dir, CBC, Rep. Barbara Lee; Leg Asst, Counsel, Chief/Staff, Rep. Tubbs Jones13 filingsthrough 2018
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan; Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan12 filingsthrough 2018
Eric RosenHerbalife International of America, Inc.Covered position: Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California Counsel, Senate Committee on the Judiciary Legislative Director, U.S. House of Representatives11 filingsthrough 2018
Anne MacmillanInvariant LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Representative Bob Matsui; Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Representative Dennis Cardoza; Policy Advisor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Deputy Chief of Staff, US Department of Agriculture11 filingsthrough 2018
Susan BrophyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Byron DorganChief of Staff, Senator Tim WirthDep. Asst.to the President for Leg. Affairs11 filingsthrough 2015
Alex MistriFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Robin HayesChief of Staff, Rep. Bill ShusterSpecial Assistant to the President for Leg AffairsStrategic Analysis Officer, Department of State11 filingsthrough 2015
Lauren HigginsRed Flag Consulting USA(FORMALLY Known as International Business-Government Counsellors, Inc)11 filingsthrough 2013
Robert HoffmanInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director/ Acting Chief of Staff, Senator Mike DeWine; Legislative Director, Senator Larry Pressler10 filingsthrough 2018
Robert Wesley HarrisFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: House Floor Assistant, Rep. G.K. Butterfield10 filingsthrough 2015
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee ; ; Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell10 filingsthrough 2015
