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
69 filings
$693K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
30 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1393117th CongressJustice for Black Farmers Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
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: rural-advancement-found-intl-usa-on-behalf-of-campaign-for-contract-ag-reform.
23 filings
$230K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
19 filings
$190K on those filings
Constitution
CON
1 filing
$10K 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.
117th Congress
Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2021
9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2933116th CongressFood and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1569116th CongressFederal Campaign Cybersecurity Assistance Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 225117th CongressCompetition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2419111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4103117th CongressMeat and Poultry Special Investigator Act3 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3870117th CongressMeat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3221116th CongressFarm System Reform Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6800115th CongressFood and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3404115th CongressFood and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2018
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
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.
