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.
Chelsea GoodLivestock Marketing Association52 filingsthrough 2025
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA, Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)27 filingsthrough 2021
Thomas Hunt ShipmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte18 filingsthrough 2019
LOUIE PERRY iiiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LA House Member Office (Huckaby)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 90 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: livestock-marketing-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.
FOO
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$30K 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.
H.R. 6067116th CongressSALE Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3140115th CongressSALE Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4103117th CongressMeat and Poultry Special Investigator Act1 filingthrough 2022
H.R. 6067117th CongressClarity in Consumer Disclosures Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
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.
18 filingsthrough 2019
Laverne Patrick HubertCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Min Chief Counsel, Senate Ag Cmte, Chief Counsel, LD & COS House Ag Cmte18 filingsthrough 2019
Charles StenholmOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: House of Representatives (Texas - 17th)15 filingsthrough 2013
Peter MatzOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC4 filingsthrough 2013
Eric BurschOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC4 filingsthrough 2012
Brian CareyOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC4 filingsthrough 2011
Kristi J. Boswell MillerAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Secretary, USDA; Policy Advisor, White House Office of American Innovation.3 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin Luke HaleLivestock Marketing Association3 filingsthrough 2023
Christopher McconnellOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC2 filingsthrough 2008
Eden ShiferawOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 7 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
