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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
70 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
69 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 228 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 875113th CongressTo provide for a comprehensive assessment of the scientific and technical research on the implications of the use of mid-level ethanol blends, and for other purposes.16 filingsthrough 2014
S. 344113th CongressA bill to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from approving the introduction into commerce of gasoline that contains greater than 10-volume-percent ethanol, and for other purposes.15 filingsthrough 2014
Meat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)
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: meat-institute-fka-north-american-meat-institute.
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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
69 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
69 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
62 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
40 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
29 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
18 filings
$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.
113th Congress
Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act
14 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1462113th CongressRFS Reform Act of 201314 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Chris ChaffeeMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)12 filingsthrough 2026
Michael J BrownMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)10 filingsthrough 2010
Brandon BeshearsMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)8 filingsthrough 2012
Matthew D MikaMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)6 filingsthrough 2010
Ashley Peterson DinsmoreMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)6 filingsthrough 2009
J Patrick BoyleMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)6 filingsthrough 2009
Joshua GiffordMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)5 filingsthrough 2012
Joy M PhilippiMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)4 filingsthrough 2010
Jesse SevcikMeat Institute (Fka North American Meat Institute)3 filingsthrough 2008
