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.
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: usa-rice-federation.
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.
TRD
72 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
69 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
51 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
40 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
31 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
15 filings
$968K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
6 filings
$310K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$130K 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.
118th Congress
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1157 West Mission Avenue in Escondido, California, as the "Captain E. Royce Williams Post Office Building".
9 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1251117th CongressGrowing Climate Solutions Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5305117th CongressExtending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3164116th CongressMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2522116th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20208 filingsthrough 2020
S. 275115th CongressAgricultural Export Expansion Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20088 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3118th CongressImproving Access to Advance Care Planning Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4356117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20227 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4996117th CongressOcean Shipping Reform Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Benjamin MoselyUSA Rice FederationCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
32 filingsthrough 2022
THOMAS R LANGLEY ivUSA Rice Federation21 filingsthrough 2014
