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.
Atalie EbersolePet Food InstituteCovered position: Executive Assistant, Rep. Jo Ann Emerson22 filingsthrough 2026
John ScofieldS-3 GroupCovered position: Dep Press Sec, US Sen Mark Hatfield; Press Sec, Rep. Frank LoBiondo; Comms Dir, House Approps19 filingsthrough 2026
Martin DelgadoS-3 GroupCovered position: Staff Dir, House Ag Approps, MilCon/VA Approps; Prof Staff, House Ag Approps, Senate Interior Approps; Budget Analysis, USDA APHIS19 filingsthrough 2026
Kate DickensS-3 Group Chief of Staff, US Sen Mark Kirk; Leg Director, Rep Mike Castle; Foreign Policy Adv, Rep. Connie Morella
The filings
The 20 most recent of 60 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: pet-food-institute.
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
39 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
38 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
32 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
27 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
22 filings
$2M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
19 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
18 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
17 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
17 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$910K 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.
118th Congress
SHIP IT Act
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 648118th CongressAgriculture Export Promotion Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 176118th CongressExpanding Agricultural Exports Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4118th CongressJohn R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 20248 filingsthrough 2024
S. 502118th CongressHealthy Dog Importation Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 759118th CongressBeagle Brigade Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 901118th CongressSAFE Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1418118th CongressAnimal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3013118th CongressLICENSE Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3318118th CongressTo amend title 23, United States Code, to establish an axle weight tolerance for certain commercial motor vehicles transporting dry bulk goods, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3372118th CongressTo amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a safety data collection program for certain 6-axle vehicles, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Covered position:
19 filingsthrough 2026
Michael LongS-3 GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services, Senior Advisor for SpeakerNancy Pelosi; Dep. Floor Director and Advisor, Dem Leader Nancy Pelosi; Special Asst and Staff Asst for Speaker Nancy Pelosi19 filingsthrough 2026
Jose CeballosS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Special Assistant to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation; Confidential Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Business Liaison, Dept of Commerce18 filingsthrough 2026
Peter TaborPet Food InstituteCovered position: Ryan Losak, Sen Boozman; Ron Anderson, Sen Cassidy; Katie Rubinger, Sen Tester; Madison Hite, Sen Capito; Barrett Tenbarge and Aliza Silver, Senate Health & Oversight; Andrew Bahrenburg, Sen Leahy; Dr. Steve Solomon & Dr. Tim Schell, FDA CVM18 filingsthrough 2021
Betsy FloresPet Food InstituteCovered position: Dir, Research and Promotion Programs, USDA AMS; Dep Dir, Ag Affairs, USTR; Dep Chief of Staff, USDA APHIS Veterinary Services14 filingsthrough 2026
Dana BrooksPet Food InstituteCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Marion Berry and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson12 filingsthrough 2026
Kevin CaseyS-3 GroupCovered position: Senior Pol Dir, Dem Caucus; Counselor, Leg. Dir, Leg. Asst, Rep. Joseph Crowley; Staff Asst, Leg. Correspondent, Rep. Bob Weygand9 filingsthrough 2026
Morgan BeachPet Food Institute9 filingsthrough 2020
Michaeleen Earle CrowellS-3 GroupCovered position: Leg Director, Rep. Denise Majette; Leg Director, Rep. John Lewis; Chief of Staff, US Sen. Bernie Sanders8 filingsthrough 2026
Ashley DavisS-3 GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the Homeland Security Director, Executive Office of the President; Deputy Director of Management and Administration, Executive Office of the President6 filingsthrough 2026
Chanda BetourneyS-3 GroupCovered position: Dep. Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Appropriations Cmt; Chief Counsel Civil Law and Oversight, Sen. Counsel, Sen. Judiciary Cmt; Leg Asst. and Projects Dir., Leg. Corresp., Senator Leahy2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 13 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
