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.
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$360K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 806118th CongressHealthy H2O Act4 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kimberly EllisMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX); Deputy Executive Secretary and Confidential Assistant, Office of U.S. Trade Representative16 filingsthrough 2026
John WeberMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD); Legislative Assistant, Chairman Conaway, House Committee on Agriculture, Staff Assistant, U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD), Intern, Senator John Thune (R-SD).16 filingsthrough 2026
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference, Office of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the Minority Whip, Roy Blunt (R-MO); Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)7 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: vestergaard-frandsen-inc-doing-business-as-lifestraw.
4 filings
$180K 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.
Julie DunneMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Export Administration, Department of Commerce.6 filingsthrough 2026
Lilia Mcfarland HorderMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst, Office of Congressional Relations USDA, Legislative Analyst, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA ,New and Beginning Farmer and Rancher Program Coordinator USDA, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA6 filingsthrough 2024
Thomas Allen HawksMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Minority Staff Director, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Aide, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS)6 filingsthrough 2023
Kathryn Christensen MillsMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, Deputy Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Senior Legislative Counsel, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)6 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
