Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Merck Animal Health
New Jersey
14 filings from 1 registrant · 2023–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$700K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$700K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Animals
ANI
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Wesley Ryan Welch Forbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005)15 filingsthrough 2026
- Elizabeth Bennett Forbes-TateCovered position: Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)10 filingsthrough 2025
- George Cooper Forbes-Tate9 filingsthrough 2026
- Kristina Dunklin Forbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Brooks, 2018 - 2019; Legislative Director, rep. Valadao, 2015-2018; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Valadao, 2014-2015
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: merck-animal-health.