23 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2015 · latest filed Feb 6, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$220K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$220K
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.
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.
Animals
ANI
22 filings
$220K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
22 filings
$220K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 59 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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-premium-beef-llc.
13 filings
$130K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$70K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
6 filings
$60K 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.
5 filings
through 2010
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 814111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 815111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 875111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 364111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 460111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4284112th CongressTo amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 965112th CongressPreservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 20114 filingsthrough 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.
