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
69 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
63 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 54 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1462118th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 549118th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2024
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: midwest-dairy-coalition.
FOO
45 filings
$900K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
29 filings
$580K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
28 filings
$560K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
5 filings
$100K 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.
117th Congress
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1603117th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1769116th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 792116th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 778115th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 130115th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1147118th CongressWhole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1474118th CongressDairy Nutrition Incentive Program Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1736118th CongressFarmers First Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1957118th CongressWhole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2407114th CongressSchool Milk Nutrition Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2203119th CongressInnovative FEED Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2496119th CongressDairy Nutrition Incentive Program Act of 20256 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.
