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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Beverage Industry
BEV
69 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
64 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 49 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Sean A. TaylorVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Judd Gregg (2001-2002); Legislative Correspondent, U.S. Senator Connie Mack (2000-2001)42 filingsthrough 2026
James BayotVan Ness Feldman, LLP33 filingsthrough 2026
Ben Lee McmakinVan Ness Feldman, LLP26 filingsthrough 2015
Carlos FloresVan Ness Feldman, LLP
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: international-bottled-water-association.
FOO
62 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
58 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
52 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
37 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
21 filings
$1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$1M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
21 filings
$1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
20 filings
$1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
5 filings
$240K 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.
117th Congress
RECOVER Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 659117th CongressDRIVE Safe Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 923117th CongressRECYCLE Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 984117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 569116th CongressDRIVE-Safe Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 821114th CongressBPA in Food Packaging Right to Know Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4040118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1189118th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1194118th CongressRecycling and Composting Accountability Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2145119th CongressRecycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 351119th CongressSTEWARD Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
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.
Covered position: Legal Intern, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry (2022); Legislative Intern, Representative Roger Marshall (2018); Legislative Intern, Senator Pat Roberts (2018)
9 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan SimonVan Ness Feldman, LLP8 filingsthrough 2018
Alan L MintzVan Ness Feldman, LLP5 filingsthrough 2017
