United Fresh Produce Association — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
United Fresh Produce Association
District of Columbia
91 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2022 · latest filed Mar 7, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$2.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.6M
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.
Randall RussellThe Russell Group, Inc.54 filingsthrough 2022
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Boehner54 filingsthrough 2022
Andrew HarkerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern37 filingsthrough 2022
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
The filings
The 20 most recent of 91 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: united-fresh-produce-association.
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.
10 filings
$500K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
3 filings
$120K 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.
6 filings
through 2014
S. 3307112th Congress21st Century Investment Act of 20126 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2419111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1603117th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1332111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 759111th 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. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5038116th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5309117th CongressFresh Produce Procurement Reform Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Jessica SchulkenThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies15 filingsthrough 2022
Edward BarronThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Senate Envir. and Public Works Comm - Dep. COS13 filingsthrough 2011
Dorothy BondThe Russell Group, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2014
Danielle Russell BeckThe Russell Group, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2016
Roger R SzemrajOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: House Approps Comm; COS, Rep. Marcy Kaptur5 filingsthrough 2021
William LesherThe Russell Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2008
Philip C KarstingOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service; CoS of Sen. Herb Kohl4 filingsthrough 2021
Samantha BuchalterThe Russell Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2019
Jonathan CordoneCordone Consulting LLCCovered position: USDA Dpty Under Secretary for Farm & Foreign Ag; USDA Dpty Gen Counsel; Senate Ag Comm Chief Counsel; Sr VP & Gen Counsel Ex-Im Bank; House Energy & Commerce Comm Gen Counsel3 filingsthrough 2020
Savannah BlockThe Russell Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2019
Alex NoffsingerThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Intern1 filingthrough 2019
David L DurkinOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 10 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
