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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
69 filings
$15.7M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 225 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4173113th CongressBrownfield Redevelopment and Economic Development Innovative Financing Act of 201414 filingsthrough 2014
S. 510113th CongressScofield Land Transfer Act14 filingsthrough 2014
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-cotton-council.
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.
113th Congress
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2014
13 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Jody Lynn CampicheNational Cotton Council
44 filingsthrough 2026
Steven HensleyNational Cotton Council40 filingsthrough 2026
Mark D LangeNational Cotton Council37 filingsthrough 2015
John MaguireNational Cotton Council36 filingsthrough 2014
E Keith MencheyNational Cotton CouncilCovered position: Biological Scientist, USDA33 filingsthrough 2014
THOMAS R. LANGLEY ivNational Cotton Council29 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew ValeskoNational Cotton Council16 filingsthrough 2018
Christine M BirdsongNational Cotton CouncilCovered position: Asst. Counsel, House Committee on Agriculture16 filingsthrough 2015
