40 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jan 2, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$800K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$800K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Steve KopperudPolicy Directions Inc.28 filingsthrough 2015
Jill Homer StewartPolicy Directions Inc.25 filingsthrough 2015
Steven KopperudSlk Strategies13 filingsthrough 2018
Dale W MoorePolicy Directions Inc.Covered position: 1989-91 Rep. Pat Roberts, Leg. Assistant, 1991-96 House Ag. Committee, Leg. Director, Minority/Majority, 2001-01/19/09 USDA, Chief of Staff to, Sec. of Agriculture7 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 1 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 40 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-renderers-association.
fees reported
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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.
40 filings
$800K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
40 filings
$800K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
35 filings
$700K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
20 filings
$400K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
20 filings
$400K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
15 filings
$300K 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
Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 584113th CongressTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require labeling of genetically engineered fish.6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 796113th CongressTo require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to use the commercially available volume of cellulosic biofuel in setting requirements for the renewable fuel program under the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 248113th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require labeling of genetically engineered fish.6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 977113th CongressForeign Fuels Reduction Act6 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3221112th CongressJob Creation and Energy Efficiency Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6112th CongressReserved for the Speaker.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2419111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 587111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2770111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3102113th CongressNutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
