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-turkey-federation.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
FOO
102 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
101 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Animals
ANI
100 filings
$4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
99 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
98 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
97 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
95 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
94 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
94 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
86 filings
$3.3M 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.
114th Congress
RFS Reform Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 577114th CongressCorn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1150113th CongressPreservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1461113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Elimination Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1462113th CongressRFS Reform Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2429113th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 875113th CongressTo provide for a comprehensive assessment of the scientific and technical research on the implications of the use of mid-level ethanol blends, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1183113th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1195113th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Repeal Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
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.
through 2024
Anne Elizabeth WillisNational Turkey Federation10 filingsthrough 2010
