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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
11 filings
$175K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
6 filings
$120K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2112112th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5504111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3307111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, US Treasury12 filingsthrough 2012
Brett ThompsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD, Sen. J. Talent8 filingsthrough 2012
Jared RifisFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide; Legislative Assistant: Sen. Harry Reid7 filingsthrough 2025
Katie SchoettlerFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Communications Director & Senior Advisor - U.S. Senator Steve Daines; Press Secretary - House Committee on Natural Resources
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 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: opaa-food-management-inc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
21st Century Investment Act of 2012
2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 5504112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the rate of duty on Dichloroacetyl Chloride.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
7 filingsthrough 2025
Michael CrossenFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: None6 filingsthrough 2025
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Department of Labor, HUD5 filingsthrough 2012
Sarah MartinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD, Rep. Cleaver1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
