68 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jun 2, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.9M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
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: minnesota-farm-bureau-federation.
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.
TAX
36 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Animals
ANI
27 filings
$985K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
23 filings
$965K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
20 filings
$715K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
17 filings
$550K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
17 filings
$505K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
16 filings
$725K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
16 filings
$720K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
15 filings
$355K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
10 filings
$310K 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.
4 filings
through 2012
H.R. 503110th CongressTo amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2421110th CongressClean Water Restoration Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Stacey StoutMinnesota Farm Bureau Federation3 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
