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.
Agriculture
AGR
36 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry18 filingsthrough 2021
Kevin BaileyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Policy Assistant to the Secretary, USDA; Staff Assistant, USDA; Intern, Sen. Tom Harkin.16 filingsthrough 2026
David M. SpoonerBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: Asst. Secretary for Import Admin, US Commerce Dept; Chief Textile & Apparel Negotiator, US Trade Rep; Chief of Staff Rep. Sue Myrick; Prof Staff Member, House Comm on Rules; Comm Dir House Ag Comm; Legislative Counsel, Rep Wes Cooley.8 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: michigan-sugar-company.
$630K
fees reported
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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.
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.
6 filingsthrough 2020
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 Agencies6 filingsthrough 2020
Karla ThiemanFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff to the Secretary,United States Department of Agriculture;Chief of Staff for the Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture; Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture;; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Agriculture Committee.5 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew VlasatyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Congressional Liaison, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Professional Staff, Senior Professional Staff, Senate Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Committee; Policy Advisor, Senator Roy Blunt4 filingsthrough 2023
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner3 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern3 filingsthrough 2017
Alex NoffsingerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Intern1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
