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: international-dairy-foods-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.
TRD
81 filings
$17M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
48 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
48 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
35 filings
$5.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
27 filings
$7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
26 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
13 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
11 filings
$660K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
7 filings
$895K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$1M 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.
118th Congress
Dairy Nutrition Incentive Program Act of 2023
15 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1796118th CongressDisaster Survivors Fairness Act of 202314 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1014118th CongressDairy Pricing Opportunity Act of 202314 filingsthrough 2024
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 201314 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5099118th CongressDairy Nutrition Incentive Program Act of 202313 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1957118th CongressWhole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 202313 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2407114th CongressSchool Milk Nutrition Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2496119th CongressDairy Nutrition Incentive Program Act of 202512 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 649119th CongressWhole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 202512 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1021119th CongressDairy Nutrition Incentive Program Act of 202512 filingsthrough 2026
S. 184119th CongressCURD Act12 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.
Ruth Dyk Saunders
International Dairy Foods Association
36 filingsthrough 2017
Donald F. GradyInternational Dairy Foods AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Correspondent and Staff Assistant, Rep. Jim Marshall.33 filingsthrough 2025
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern31 filingsthrough 2019
Chelsee WoodeyInternational Dairy Foods AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Jim Bunning26 filingsthrough 2017
Robert RosadoInternational Dairy Foods AssociationCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry; Director of Legislative & Public Affairs, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)22 filingsthrough 2026
Jerry SlominskiInternational Dairy Foods Association21 filingsthrough 2014
Collin Clark PetersonThe Peterson Group IncCovered position: Member US House of Representatives18 filingsthrough 2026
Allison StockThe Peterson Group IncCovered position: Chief of Staff US House of Representatives17 filingsthrough 2026
Elliott A PetersonThe Peterson Group Inc17 filingsthrough 2026
Anthony EberhardInternational Dairy Foods AssociationCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/Leg Director for Sen. John Hoeven; Prof Staff; Senate Agriculture Committee; Acting Leg Director, Dep Leg Director and Leg Asst for Sen. Norm Coleman; Leg Asst for Rep. Jo Ann Emerson; Leg Corr and Staff Asst for Rep Hulshof14 filingsthrough 2020
Edward BarronThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Senate Envir. and Public Works Comm - Dep. COS12 filingsthrough 2011
Jeffrey G. WeissSteptoe LLPCovered position: Asst. Leg. Adv. U.S. Mission to the WTO (2001-2004); Asst. Gen. Counsel/Sr. Dir. USTR (2004-2011); Assoc. Admin. OMB (2011-2013); Dep. Dir. U.S. DoC (2013-2017)11 filingsthrough 2024
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry11 filingsthrough 2019
Steven RosenbaumCovington & Burling LLP9 filingsthrough 2014
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2013
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2013
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2013
