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.
Jack Macgregor CampbellLincoln Policy Group Deputy Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee; General Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Legislative Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln
The filings
The 20 most recent of 34 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: monsanto.
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.
10 filings
$558K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
7 filings
$438K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$333K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
6 filings
$378K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$378K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
6 filings
$306K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
5 filings
$315K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$63K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
1 filing
$63K 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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2098111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1203111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 364111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 3793111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1409111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Covered position:
15 filingsthrough 2018
Don NicklesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator13 filingsthrough 2011
Cynthia Merifield TripodiThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant11 filingsthrough 2010
Craig FelnerLincoln Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison; Associate Director, White House Office of Cabinet Affairs.8 filingsthrough 2018
Brian WildThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Exec. Office of the VP, Dpty. Asst. for Leg. Aff.8 filingsthrough 2010
