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-potato-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.
BUD
94 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
81 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
71 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
54 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
40 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
37 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
2 filings
$120K 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.
113th Congress
Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013
10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 764116th CongressARTICLE ONE Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1019118th CongressEliminating the Head Start Vaccine Mandate Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 391118th CongressProtect Farmers from the SEC Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1603117th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4800113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20157 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4288119th CongressTo name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in San Jose, California, as the "Corporal Patrick D. Tillman VA Clinic".6 filingsthrough 2026
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.
National Potato Council
39 filingsthrough 2026
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies31 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Robert WenkelNational Potato Council26 filingsthrough 2026
William Kam QuarlesMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: 1993: Legislative Assistant, Representative Ken Calvert; 1991-1992: District Office, Senator John Seymour25 filingsthrough 2016
Robert EllsworthThe Majority Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, ID-1; Legislative Director, ID-1; Senior Legislative Assistant, NC-11; Professional Staff, House Admin. Committee; Intern, OH-819 filingsthrough 2016
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry18 filingsthrough 2021
Ryan KrabillNational Potato Council17 filingsthrough 2015
Karen WilliamsMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: 2015: Leg. Director, Rep. Bob Goodlatte; 2011-14: Leg. Director, Rep. Steve Southerland; 2001-10: Leg. Director, Rep. Adam Putnam; 1999-2000: Leg. Asst., Rep. Charles Canady16 filingsthrough 2020
