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-grocers-association.
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.
BAN
70 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
68 filings
$8.8M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
61 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
39 filings
$6M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
29 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Small Business
SMB
25 filings
$6M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
25 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
18 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Accounting
ACC
16 filings
$910K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
15 filings
$1.5M 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
Healthy Food Access for All Americans Act
8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 772115th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1768114th CongressWorkforce Democracy and Fairness Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2017114th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20177 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2712114th CongressCommonsense Reporting and Verification Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4687117th CongressSupermarket Tax Credit for Underserved Areas Act6 filingsthrough 2022
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.
21 filingsthrough 2013
Stephanie Elizabeth JohnsonNational Grocers AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Jon Tester20 filingsthrough 2026
Molly Elizabeth PfaffenrothNational Grocers Association18 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew FoleyNational Grocers Association16 filingsthrough 2018
Robert YeakelNational Grocers AssociationCovered position: Policy Advisor, House Budget Committee15 filingsthrough 2022
Neal PatelPatel PartnersCovered position: COS to Deputy Dir. for Mgmt., OMB (EOP); Dep. Assoc. Dir. for Leg Affairs, OMB (EOP); Professional Staff Member, Senate Finance Cmte; Comms Dir. & Counsel, Sen. Dean Heller; Comms Dir. & Counsel, Rep. Boustany, Jr.; Comms Dir., Rep. Wilson (SC)11 filingsthrough 2025
Frank DipasqualeNational Grocers AssociationCovered position: Executive Vice President11 filingsthrough 2010
Max WengroffNational Grocers Association10 filingsthrough 2026
Peter J LarkinNational Grocers AssociationCovered position: President & CEO10 filingsthrough 2013
Robert D. LehmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: CoS Portman 11-15; CoS OMB 06-07; CoS USTR 05-06; CoS Rep Portman 03-05; CoS Rep Combest 93-03; LD/LA Rep Combest; Lobby Spec. House Clerk 88-899 filingsthrough 2023
Brian SkretnyWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: Senior Professional Staff HFAC 2014-2021; LD Rep. Engel 2014-2021; LD/Counsel Rep. Engel 2007-20129 filingsthrough 2023
Thomas ZauchaNational Grocers AssociationCovered position: President & CEO9 filingsthrough 2010
John Joseph RichardNational Grocers Association6 filingsthrough 2023
Kailee Marie TkaczNational Grocers AssociationCovered position: Manager, Government Affairs6 filingsthrough 2014
Jonathan BlumWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: Sen. Young (2021) Economic Policy Advisor; Treasury (2018-2021) DAS; HFSC (2014-2018) Senior Policy Advisor/Senior Professional Staff/Professional Staff; Sen. Heller (2011-2014) LC4 filingsthrough 2022
Stuart ZlotnikoffNational Grocers AssociationCovered position: Senior Vice President4 filingsthrough 2008
Chris JonesCenter Market Strategies, LLC3 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak2 filingsthrough 2026
John V. DrzewickiVenable LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Steve Austria; Policy Advisor, US House of Representatives; Policy Director, House Republican Conference2 filingsthrough 2026
Caroline OlsenVenable LLPCovered position: Director of Member Services, House Republican Conference; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Communications Director, Rep. Pete Sessions; Press Secretary, Rep. Pete Sessions; Press Assistant, Rep. Pete Sessions; Comms Director, House Rules Committee2 filingsthrough 2026
Brian D CallahanNational Grocers AssociationCovered position: Manager Government Affairs2 filingsthrough 2012
Laura StrangeNational Grocers Association1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 22 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
