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: kroger-co.
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.
HCR
44 filings
$9.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
33 filings
$8M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
32 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
29 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
26 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
22 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Retirement
RET
9 filings
$630K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
7 filings
$813K on those filings
Banking
BAN
7 filings
$583K 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
Carbon Sequestration Collaboration Act
9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 842117th CongressProtecting the Right to Organize Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3548117th CongressVeterans Hearing Benefits Act of 20229 filingsthrough 2022
S. 537117th CongressHealthy Workplaces Act9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 578117th CongressFASTER Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1165118th CongressData Privacy Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1613118th CongressDrug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1770118th CongressEquitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 704118th CongressPromoting Access to Diabetic Shoes Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1038118th CongressDrug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 127118th CongressPharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 140118th CongressCombating Organized Retail Crime Act of 20238 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.
Adrian SwannThe Kroger Co.Covered position: Sen. Sherrod Brown: Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant; Secretary of the Senate, Morning Business Coordinator
11 filingsthrough 2025
Laura B. DyerThe Kroger Co.Covered position: Rep. Steve Austria - Staff Assistant and Intern Coordinator, Legislative Correspondent; Rep. Bill Johnson - Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Legislative Director8 filingsthrough 2026
William DwyerThe Kroger Co.1 filingthrough 2026
Gary HuddlestonThe Kroger Co.1 filingthrough 2008
Marsha GilfordThe Kroger Co.1 filingthrough 2008
Mike MckeownThe Kroger Co.1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
