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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
79 filings
$40.9M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
75 filings
$40.8M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 7116th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar-producing and -consuming countries should be eliminated.4 filingsthrough 2020
Cassie BladowU.S. Beet Sugar AssociationCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator John Hoeven, April 2018 - May 1, 2020 Legislative assistant/Legislative aide/Legislative correspondent, Senator John Hoeven, 2011 - 201540 filingsthrough 2026
JAMES JOHNSON jrU.S. Beet Sugar AssociationCovered position: President33 filingsthrough 2016
Carrie Vicenta G MeadowsU.S. Beet Sugar Association Ag Advisor to Administrator/Senior Advisor, EPA, Mar 2020-Jan 2021 Chief of Staff, Rep. Newhouse 2015-Mar 2020 Rep Goodlatte: Legislative Director & various positions Professional Staff, House Judiciary Committee Intern, House Agriculture Comm.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 79 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: u-s-beet-sugar-association.
$90K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
FOO
51 filings
$31.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
39 filings
$26.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$22.2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
13 filings
$6M 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
Fair Sugar Policy Act of 2019
4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2568116th CongressFair Sugar Policy Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 8239117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4368118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
S. 2609114th CongressAn original bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling standard for bioengineered foods, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4378116th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 20191 filingthrough 2020
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.
Covered position:
22 filingsthrough 2026
Brian T BaenigU.S. Beet Sugar Association17 filingsthrough 2020
Jeff James RustvangU.S. Beet Sugar Association8 filingsthrough 2018
Anthony CampauClark Hill Public Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff and Counselor, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Executive Office of the President (EOP); Transition Staff, OMB/OIRA; Regulatory Reform Team, Presidential Transition Team.6 filingsthrough 2026
Conrad FurlichClark Hill Public Strategies LLC5 filingsthrough 2026
