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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: nebraska-farm-bureau-federation.
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.
TAX
31 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
24 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
23 filings
$996K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
19 filings
$830K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
12 filings
$525K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
11 filings
$559K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$433K on those filings
Animals
ANI
9 filings
$481K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$382K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
6 filings
$257K 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
Cattle Market Transparency Act of 2021
5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 872112th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 7024118th CongressTax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7046118th CongressSupporting Farm Operations Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
S. 874118th CongressFarm Operations Support Act3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4030117th CongressCattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6977116th CongressSmall Packer Overtime and Holiday Fee Relief for COVID–19 Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
S. 3797116th CongressSmall Packer Overtime and Holiday Fee Relief for COVID–19 Act of 20203 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
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.
