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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
8 filings
$180K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$180K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Max Baucus (2001-2004)10 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee (2003); Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus (1999-2002)10 filingsthrough 2022
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009); Legislative Director, Rep. Ron Kind (1999-2002)10 filingsthrough 2022
Elizabeth BennettForbes-Tate Int, Rep Ron Lewis (2007); SA LC LA, Rep Brett Guthrie (2009-2013); LA, Rep Andy Barr (2013); LA, Sen Mitch McConnell (2013-2015); DepAssocAdmin, EPA (2017); AssocAdmin, EPA (2017-2020); SpecAssistPres, EOP (2020-2021); SenAdv, USDA (2020-2021)
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: roundtable-on-sustainable-palm-oil.
8 filings
$180K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
8 filings
$180K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$180K 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.
Covered position:
10 filingsthrough 2022
Rachel MillerForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)9 filingsthrough 2022
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate8 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)6 filingsthrough 2022
George CooperForbes-Tate3 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
