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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
28 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
21 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20246 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9027118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.27 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern27 filingsthrough 2026
Ashlee Nicole JohnsonThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Mike Ross; Executive Assistant, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Legislative Analyst, White House Liaison, Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary, USDA; Policy Assistant, Domestic Policy Council20 filingsthrough 2026
Anne MacmillanInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr Advisor, Deputy Chief of Staff, US Dept. of Agriculture (2010-2014);
Policy Advisor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (2009-2010);
Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Rep. Dennis Cardoza (2003-2009);
Staff Assistant, Rep. Bob Matsui (2001-2002)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 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: mccain-foods-usa-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
ENV
3 filings
$240K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$160K 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
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025
2 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7567119th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20261 filingthrough 2026
S. 5355118th CongressNACIE Improvement Act1 filingthrough 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.
19 filingsthrough 2026
Adam TarrInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr Pro Staff, Sen Cmte on Ag, Nutrition & Forestry 19-22; Leg Asst, Sen Casey 17-19; Sr Advisor, USDA, Off of the Sec 16-17; COS, USDA, Off for Food Safety 14-16; Sen Specter: Leg Asst 09-10, Leg Aide 08-09, Leg Correspondent 07-09, Staff Asst 06-0718 filingsthrough 2026
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies13 filingsthrough 2023
Kenneth BarbicInvariant LLCCovered position: Asst Secretary for Congressional Relations, USDA (18-21); Dep Asst U.S. Trade Representative for Congressional Affairs, USTR (07-09); House Ways and Means Comm., Subcommittee on Trade: Leg. Asst (06-07); Sr Staff Asst (05-06); Staff Asst (05-06)10 filingsthrough 2026
Samual George LoveInvariant LLCCovered position: Sen. Cory Gardner:
Legislative Assistant (2015-2021);
Legislative Aide/Director of Correspondence (2015);
Rep. Cory Gardner:
Legislative Aide/Legislative Correspondent (2013-2014);
Legislative Correspondent (2013)7 filingsthrough 2023
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner6 filingsthrough 2022
Timothy MartinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Rodney Davis (2015-2017);
Sr. Legislative Assistant and General Counsel, Rep. Scott Tipton (2014-2015)5 filingsthrough 2022
Curtis SwagerMccain Foods USA Inc.Covered position: Staff of United States Senate5 filingsthrough 2022
Samantha BuchalterThe Russell Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2021
Danielle BeckInvariant LLCCovered position: Sr. Leg. Asst, Rep. Tom Rooney (2013-2014); Leg. Asst, Rep. Tom Rooney (2012-2013); Leg. Correspondent, Rep. Tom Rooney (2011); Staff Asst, Rep. Tom Rooney (2010); Intern, U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee4 filingsthrough 2024
Annie D'AmatoInvariant LLCCovered position: Democratic Counsel, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2023); Professional Staff; Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2019-2022)2 filingsthrough 2024
Covered positions · 12 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
