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: illinois-corn-growers-association.
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.
41 filings
$2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$90K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
1 filing
$15K 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
4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 6083112th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
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.
21 filings
through 2023
Jonathan BerryBoyden Gray & Associates PLLCCovered position: Regulatory Policy Officer, Department of Labor17 filingsthrough 2024
Cheri BustosMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Senator 2013-202316 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas BustosMercury Public Affairs, LLC15 filingsthrough 2026
John ShimkusKit Bond StrategiesCovered position: US Congress: Illinois- District 1511 filingsthrough 2026
Adam GustafsonBoyden Gray & Associates PLLCCovered position: N/A11 filingsthrough 2020
Kate ShenkDC Legislative and Regulatory Services, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. James Langevin, 2001, 2002, 20048 filingsthrough 2012
Emily OlsonDC Legislative and Regulatory Services, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Asst., Rep Bill Lipinski, 2002-20044 filingsthrough 2009
Shelby ScarpaDC Legislative and Regulatory Services, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2024
Blanche LincolnLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: U.S. Senator and Congresswoman--Arkansas2 filingsthrough 2022
Craig FelnerLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison; Associate Director, White House Office of Cabinet Affairs.2 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew R. VarcoeBoyden Gray & Associates PLLC2 filingsthrough 2018
Michael MorthlandMercury Public Affairs, LLC1 filingthrough 2023
James CondeBoyden Gray & Associates PLLC1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 11 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
