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.
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: michigan-farm-bureau.
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.
49 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
49 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
28 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
24 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
21 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
17 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
12 filings
$795K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$515K on those filings
Housing
HOU
8 filings
$770K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
8 filings
$530K 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. 5887117th CongressKeep Food Local and Affordable Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3134117th CongressKeep Food Local and Affordable Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4059118th CongressTo include phosphate and potash on the final list of critical minerals of the Department of the Interior.6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4739118th CongressProtecting America’s Orchardists and Nursery Tree Growers Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4838118th CongressSpecialty Crop Security Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5199118th CongressSpecialty Crop Research Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 26118th CongressSNOOP Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
S. 322118th CongressSWAT Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5089117th CongressNext Generation Fuels Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1732114th CongressRegulatory Integrity Protection Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1624119th CongressSupporting Farm Operations Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
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.
