34 filings from 3 registrants · 2010–2018 · latest filed Oct 12, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$120K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$120K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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: the-wine-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.
LBR
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$10K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$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.
1 filing
through 2011
H.R. 6083112th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2012
CARL GIST jrTch Group, LLCCovered position: Former Legislative Asst. to John Barrow (D-GA)4 filingsthrough 2010
Edward BarronThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Senate Agric. Comm. - Deputy Chief Counsel/Chief of Staff ; ; S. Envir.Pub.Works Com - Deputy COS; Sen. Jud. Chief Counsel2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
