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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
48 filings
$467K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
33 filings
$320K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3042115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Denise BodeMichael Best Strategies LLC26 filingsthrough 2023
Patrick Lannin FirthConstitution Partners17 filingsthrough 2026
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Senate Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte16 filingsthrough 2016
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 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: institute-of-food-technologists.
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.
BUD
14 filings
$140K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
14 filings
$140K 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.
Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)
16 filingsthrough 2016
Alice Joan GomezCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2016
Denise BodeCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2016
Patrick Lannin FirthMichael Best Strategies LLC15 filingsthrough 2023
Kevin SwansonMichael Best Strategies LLC13 filingsthrough 2019
Emily Jean Green ConradConstitution Partners10 filingsthrough 2024
Harrison CollinsMichael Best Strategies LLC8 filingsthrough 2022
Molly MartellMichael Best Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2022
Rachel SpiveyMichael Best Strategies LLC1 filingthrough 2023
Laverne Patrick HubertCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel; LD; COS House Ag Cmte ; ; Minority Chief Counsel, Sen Ag Cmte1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 3 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
