25 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2015 · latest filed Mar 18, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$730K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$730K
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.
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
24 filings
$720K on those filings
Animals
ANI
24 filings
$720K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 35 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Jill Homer StewartPolicy Directions Inc.24 filingsthrough 2014
Steve KopperudPolicy Directions Inc.24 filingsthrough 2014
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 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: nestle-purina-petcare-co.
24 filings
$720K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
24 filings
$720K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
24 filings
$720K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
19 filings
$570K 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.
112th Congress
21st Century Energy Independence Act of 2011
6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 66112th CongressWaste-to-Energy Technology Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 212112th CongressFreedom Fuels Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 25112th CongressSUGAR Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5351111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S.Res. 206111th 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.
