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.
United Food & Commercial Workers International Union
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: united-food-commercial-workers-international-union.
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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
59 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
39 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Banking
BAN
31 filings
$6M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
30 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
28 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
21 filings
$4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
21 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Retirement
RET
13 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
13 filings
$1.4M 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
Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 460113th CongressFair Minimum Wage Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5515110th CongressNew Employee Verification Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 800110th CongressEmployee Free Choice Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1041110th CongressEmployee Free Choice Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1117th CongressFor the People Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3884116th CongressMORE Act of 20204 filingsthrough 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.
through 2026
Robert LopezUnited Food & Commercial Workers International Union14 filingsthrough 2026
Jo Ellen DeutschUnited Food & Commercial Workers International Union11 filingsthrough 2010
Ben TimminsUnited Food & Commercial Workers International Union6 filingsthrough 2022
Michael J WilsonUnited Food & Commercial Workers International Union4 filingsthrough 2008
Brett MulliganUnited Food & Commercial Workers International Union1 filingthrough 2026
