76 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2025 · latest filed Jan 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$19.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$18.6M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$720K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: kellanova.
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.
RET
43 filings
$12.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
27 filings
$9.1M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
25 filings
$10.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
24 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
19 filings
$5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
7 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$770K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
3 filings
$1.1M 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.
116th Congress
CARES Act
8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 173115th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 58115th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3146118th CongressReduce Food Loss and Waste Act5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4444115th CongressRehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2147115th CongressButch Lewis Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2050114th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 879114th CongressAx the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1631114th CongressKeep Our Pension Promises Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2045114th CongressMiddle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Bgr Government Affairs
Covered position: Aide to Rep. Scott Klug
10 filingsthrough 2025
Fred TurnerBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Sen. Menendez; COS, US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; COS, Rep. Hastings, Associate Staff of House Rules Committee10 filingsthrough 2025
Steven PfrangBgr Government AffairsCovered position: COS, Rep. LaHood; Dep COS, LD, Rep. Reed; LA, LC, SA, Intern, Rep. Fossella10 filingsthrough 2025
Michael DanielsKellanovaCovered position: U.S. Department of Agriculture: Senior Advisor and Executive Assistant to the Secretary; Executive Office of the President: Associate, Presidential Personnel Office; U.S. House of Representatives: Communications Director, Rep. David Curson; Research9 filingsthrough 2023
Chris GarzaKellanova8 filingsthrough 2013
Tanisha A SandersKellanovaCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2011
Melanie Lou BellerKellanova4 filingsthrough 2008
George A FranklinKellanova1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 7 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
