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.
Animals
ANI
36 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$120K 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 — 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
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1184118th CongressHealthy Dog Importation Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 502118th CongressHealthy Dog Importation Act8 filingsthrough 2024
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Al FrankenD-Minnesota
Bills: S. 502
9 filings
3 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern38 filingsthrough 2026
Samantha BuchalterThe Russell Group, Inc.38 filingsthrough 2026
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.20 filingsthrough 2022
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 Agencies16 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 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: national-animal-interest-alliance.
spend on filings that named this issue
117th Congress
Healthy Dog Importation Act
7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2597117th CongressHealthy Dog Importation Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3349119th CongressHealthy Dog Importation Act5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1725119th CongressHealthy Dog Importation Act5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 6921116th CongressHealthy Dog Importation Act3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 9027115th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 9029115th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2017
S. 4690115th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2017
S. 4942115th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2017
S. 502115th CongressA bill to modify the boundary of Voyageurs National Park in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Kate ThompsonThe Russell Group, Inc.
12 filingsthrough 2026
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry3 filingsthrough 2017
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
