65 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jun 8, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$667K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$667K
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.
Agriculture
AGR
63 filings
$647K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
61 filings
$627K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 82 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 107117th CongressNew Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1258117th CongressStrengthening Local Processing Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
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-states-cattlemens-association.
CAW
49 filings
$495K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
31 filings
$315K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
25 filings
$250K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
24 filings
$245K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
24 filings
$240K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
21 filings
$215K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$125K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
11 filings
$115K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
7 filings
$70K 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.
117th Congress
Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act
7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 370117th CongressStrengthening Local Processing Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1094113th CongressSafeguard American Food Exports Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 541113th CongressSafeguard American Food Exports Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5508117th CongressFOREST Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2623117th CongressU.S.A. Beef Act6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2716117th CongressAmerican Beef Labeling Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2950117th CongressFOREST Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1150113th CongressPreservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2671113th CongressCharitable Agricultural Research Act6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1256113th CongressPreventing Antibiotic Resistance Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1280113th CongressCharitable Agricultural Research Act6 filingsthrough 2014
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.
