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.
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-council-of-farmer-cooperatives.
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.
IMM
69 filings
$21.7M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
69 filings
$21.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
69 filings
$21.7M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
68 filings
$21.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
64 filings
$20.8M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
64 filings
$20.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
52 filings
$16.8M on those filings
Retirement
RET
40 filings
$13.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
23 filings
$785K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
19 filings
$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.
112th Congress
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011
10 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 897114th CongressZika Vector Control Act9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 935113th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20149 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5376118th CongressShare the Savings with Seniors Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1603117th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 802113th CongressSensible Environmental Protection Act of 20138 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.
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: JCT: Associate Deputy Chief of Staff
52 filingsthrough 2025
Charles F ConnerNational Council of Farmer Cooperatives49 filingsthrough 2025
Patrick G. HeckCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: House Committee on Ways and Means:Assistant Counsel42 filingsthrough 2025
Kelsey Swango BillingsNational Council of Farmer Cooperatives40 filingsthrough 2022
Mary Nowak ArmstrongNational Council of Farmer Cooperatives37 filingsthrough 2025
Thomas Robert HebertBayard Ridge Group, LLCCovered position: USDA DUS NRE25 filingsthrough 2019
Kathleen M Heron JohnsonNational Council of Farmer Cooperatives18 filingsthrough 2016
Zachary GihorskiNational Council of Farmer Cooperatives16 filingsthrough 2026
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.14 filingsthrough 2026
