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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
42 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
40 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 78 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 10545119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5305117th CongressExtending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Tom Douglas SellCombest, Sell & Associates, LLC59 filingsthrough 2026
Jeff HarrisonCombest, Sell & Associates, LLC59 filingsthrough 2026
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: select-milk-producers-inc-continental-dairy-products-inc.
12 filings
$480K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$40K 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.
6 filings
through 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5305118th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1157 West Mission Avenue in Escondido, California, as the "Captain E. Royce Williams Post Office Building".5 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5038116th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9027118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 641116th CongressAgricultural Worker Program Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1140114th CongressFederal Water Quality Protection Act3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20133 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.
