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: hershey-company.
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.
AGR
68 filings
$12.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
41 filings
$7.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
25 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
16 filings
$2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
8 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
6 filings
$683K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
5 filings
$643K 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.
113th Congress
Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 479119th CongressHealthy SNAP Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 561119th CongressHealthy SNAP Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6159118th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20234 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.
Sean D'ArcyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Counsel to Rep. Donald Pease, 1992
19 filingsthrough 2017
Courtney ClarkThe Hershey Company15 filingsthrough 2026
John GillilandAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intl trade cnsl, S Fin Comm, Feb 03-Jan 05; leg asst to Sen Lincoln, Jun 01-Feb 037 filingsthrough 2017
Stephen KhoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld7 filingsthrough 2016
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug 99-Nov 00.4 filingsthrough 2017
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 4 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
