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: hormel-foods-corporation.
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.
IMM
49 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
47 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
46 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
27 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
15 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$269K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$101K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$20K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5106118th CongressTo direct the Secretary of Agriculture to publish criteria for the review of requests by certain meat or poultry establishments to operate at alternate inspection rates, to review and respond to such requests, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1549112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the unearned income medicare contribution.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6022116th CongressBuffalo Soldiers Congressional Gold Medal Act of 20204 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3019116th CongressMontana Water Rights Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2019
S. 3656112th CongressA bill to repeal an obsolete provision in title 49, United States Code, requiring motor vehicle insurance cost reporting.4 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2609114th CongressAn original bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling standard for bioengineered foods, and for other purposes.3 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.
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies29 filingsthrough 2026
Joe Charles SwedbergHormel Foods CorporationCovered position: Vice President of Legislative Affairs29 filingsthrough 2015
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry17 filingsthrough 2021
