49 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2021 · latest filed Oct 20, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$490K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$490K
across every firm on file
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
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
49 filings
$490K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
48 filings
$480K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 90 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2393114th CongressCountry of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2933116th CongressFood and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
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-beef-packing-company-llc.
12 filings
$120K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$60K 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.
116th Congress
Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 2019
6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1314114th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1844114th CongressVoluntary Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) and Trade Enhancement Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6724116th CongressPublic Health Emergency Shelter Act of 20205 filingsthrough 2020
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1332111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 814111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 815111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 875111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 364111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 460111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
