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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
73 filings
$35K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
49 filings
$35K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Nicholas PyleRobert N. Pyle & Associates, Inc.70 filingsthrough 2026
Lee C WeingartLne Group4 filingsthrough 2013
Justin R MccaulleyLne Group4 filingsthrough 2013
Gabe W BelowLne Group4 filingsthrough 2013
Scott OwensLne Group3 filingsthrough 2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 75 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: mckee-foods.
CDT
49 filings
$35K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
49 filings
$35K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
3 filings
$35K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
3 filings
$35K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$35K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$35K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$35K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
3 filings
$35K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$35K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$35K 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.
Cheryl Arnold
Lne Group
3 filingsthrough 2013
Sarah ArenaRobert N. Pyle & Associates, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2014
