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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: texas-farm-bureau.
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.
AGR
49 filings
$13.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
41 filings
$9.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
36 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
28 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
24 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
22 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
22 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Animals
ANI
18 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
18 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
16 filings
$5M 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.
116th Congress
Moving Forward Act
7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3781116th CongressImproving National Safety by Updating the Required Amount of Insurance Needed by Commercial Motor Vehicles per Event (INSURANCE) Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5115th CongressRegulatory Accountability Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5226115th CongressClean and Efficient Cars Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 953115th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
S. 340115th CongressSensible Environmental Protection Act of 20176 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4708118th CongressH–2 Improvements to Relieve Employers Act5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act5 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 7046118th CongressSupporting Farm Operations Act of 20244 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2370117th CongressPreserving Family Farms Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
S. 617117th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 428115th CongressRed River Gradient Boundary Survey Act4 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Texas Farm Bureau
25 filingsthrough 2016
Billy HoweTexas Farm Bureau14 filingsthrough 2022
Regan AdamsTexas Farm Bureau1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 2 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
