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
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1599114th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Amy TejralAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Ben Nelson5 filingsthrough 2015
Salo ZelermyerBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, DOE (2007-2009)4 filingsthrough 2016
Curtis BeaulieuBracewell LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel Sen. Finance Committee (2011-2014); Tax Counsel, Sen. Hatch (2008-2011); Tax Counsel, Rep. McCrery (2007-2008); Counsel, Sen. Johnson (2006-2007); Leg. Correspondent Sen. Vitter (2005- 2006)4 filingsthrough 2016
Elizabeth Dee MartinBracewell LLP
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-voices-action-fund.
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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.
FOO
3 filings
$60K 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.
4 filings
through 2016
Eric WashburnBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Daschle (2001-03); Staff Director, Senate EPW (Reid) (2001); Legislative Director, Sen. Daschle (1997-2001); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Daschle (1993-1997)3 filingsthrough 2016
Tracy SpicerAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Political Director, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Special Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Staff Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy3 filingsthrough 2015
Elizabeth Macdonald BarnettAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Speechwriter, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Staff Assistant, Sen. Energy/Natural Resource Cmte3 filingsthrough 2015
Jordan A LacrosseAvenue Solutions3 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
