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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: kansas-farm-bureau.
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
59 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
59 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
59 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
53 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
44 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Animals
ANI
30 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
16 filings
$670K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
15 filings
$600K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$580K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$380K 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
Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2023
8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 228118th CongressCattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 391118th CongressProtect Farmers from the SEC Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2286117th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat property transferred by gift or at death as sold for fair market value, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2370117th CongressPreserving Family Farms Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 792117th CongressHAULS Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1311115th CongressConsumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 517115th CongressConsumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.J.Res. 27118th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Revised Definition of 'Waters of the United States'".7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1512118th CongressDIRECT Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
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.
