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: nestle-usa.
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.
LBR
82 filings
$29.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
81 filings
$26.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
74 filings
$23.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$29.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
43 filings
$14.9M on those filings
Retirement
RET
39 filings
$17.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$7.9M on those filings
Veterans
VET
24 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
16 filings
$12.3M on those filings
Housing
HOU
14 filings
$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.
110th Congress
Food and Drug Import Safety Act of 2007
10 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20089 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 612113th CongressSafe and Efficient Transportation Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 793113th CongressFirearm Safety and Buyback Grant Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20088 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2229117th CongressBaby Food Safety Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2820117th CongressGrowing Climate Solutions Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1019117th CongressBaby Food Safety Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1251117th CongressGrowing Climate Solutions Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
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.
31 filingsthrough 2017
Hanna Abou-El-SeoudNestle USACovered position: U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Legislative Assistant/Policy Analyst Apr 2011- Mar 201527 filingsthrough 2026
Nicole C CollierNestle USA26 filingsthrough 2021
Robert R GreenWatson Green LLC (Formerly WATSON/MULHERN, LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff (Sen Ag Com); Deputy Undersec Ag26 filingsthrough 2018
Nicole C YoungPodesta Group, Inc.21 filingsthrough 2014
Louise HilsenNestle USA19 filingsthrough 2013
Kaitlyn BrownNestle USACovered position: Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY-06) from 2015 to 2018.18 filingsthrough 2026
Kelsey FreemanNestle USA17 filingsthrough 2019
Emma Lee BryanNestle USACovered position: Senator Joe Manchin legislative assistance Nov 2017-Jan 202316 filingsthrough 2026
Josh FaberThe Roth Group14 filingsthrough 2016
Colby ShollerNestle USACovered position: Office of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) - September 2011 - March 2012 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee - March 2012 - March 2013 U.S. Agency for International Development: March 2013 - May 201713 filingsthrough 2026
Toby RothThe Roth GroupCovered position: Member of Congress,1979-9713 filingsthrough 2015
Louise HilsenMs. Louise Hilsen12 filingsthrough 2018
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell11 filingsthrough 2017
Louise HilsenKelley Drye & Warren LLP11 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen MichaelPolicy Directions Inc.11 filingsthrough 2010
Frankie L TrullPolicy Directions Inc.11 filingsthrough 2010
Steve KopperudPolicy Directions Inc.11 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew J LewinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Asst./Leg. Director, Rep. Max Sandlin10 filingsthrough 2017
Morgan BeachNestle USACovered position: U.S. House of Representatives Congressman David Valadao Legislative Research Assistance Aug. 2016-Dec. 20169 filingsthrough 2026
Lucas SzaboNestle USA9 filingsthrough 2024
Binta BeardPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Health Leg. Assistant, Sen. Dick Durbin9 filingsthrough 2016
Robert R GreenWatkinson Miller PLLCCovered position: Chief of Staff (Sen Ag Cmte); Deputy Undersec Ag9 filingsthrough 2012
