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: organic-trade-association.
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.
TRD
28 filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
27 filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
14 filings
$305K on those filings
Animals
ANI
4 filings
$250K 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.
H.R. 2436115th CongressOrganic Agriculture Research Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 6593119th CongressDomestic Organic Investment Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 7567119th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5973118th CongressContinuous Improvement and Accountability in Organic Standards Act2 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5504111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
22 filingsthrough 2017
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Director / CoS, Sen. Lamar Alexander ; ; Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee ; ; Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell21 filingsthrough 2017
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dpty. SD/Communications, Jt. Economic Cmte. ; ; Press Secy/LA/Sr. Comm. Adv, Rep. Ed Markey ; ; Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer16 filingsthrough 2015
Laura Beth BatchaOrganic Trade Association13 filingsthrough 2018
Timothy A GlasscoPodesta Group, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2014
Bob GrayGray & Oscar, LLC (Formerly Bob Gray, LLC)10 filingsthrough 2010
Thomas Allen HawksMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Minority Staff Director, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Aide, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS).9 filingsthrough 2026
Lilia Mcfarland HorderMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst, Office of Congressional Relations USDA, Legislative Analyst, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA ,New and Beginning Farmer and Rancher Program Coordinator USDA, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA9 filingsthrough 2026
Joseph Linus BradyOrganic Trade Association8 filingsthrough 2016
William Irvin TelligmanOrganic Trade Association8 filingsthrough 2012
