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.
Agriculture
AGR
69 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
36 filings
$900K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 45 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1393117th CongressJustice for Black Farmers Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
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-organic-coalition-inc-fka-rural-advancement-foundation-intern.
FOO
27 filings
$512K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
13 filings
$232K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$40K 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.
117th Congress
Climate Stewardship Act of 2021
9 filingsthrough 2022
S. 300117th CongressJustice for Black Farmers Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 313117th CongressExpanding SNAP Options Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1337117th CongressAgriculture Resilience Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1699114th CongressFederal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 809114th CongressEducational Opportunities Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2436115th CongressOrganic Agriculture Research Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3871115th CongressOrganic Farmer and Consumer Protection Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2419111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4356117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20225 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.
