24 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 17, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$955K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$475K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$480K
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.
Jill Homer StewartPolicy Directions Inc.Covered position: N/A11 filingsthrough 2010
Steve KopperudPolicy Directions Inc.Covered position: N/A11 filingsthrough 2010
Leah WilkinsonViagen Inc.10 filingsthrough 2010
Dale W MoorePolicy Directions Inc.Covered position: 1989-91 Rep. Pat Roberts, Leg. Assistant, 1991-96 House Ag Committee, Leg. Director, Minority/Majority, 2001-01/19/09 USDA, Chief of Staff to Sec., of Agriculture5 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: viagen-inc.
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.
ANI
10 filings
$475K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$275K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$40K 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.
110th Congress
To amend the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to prohibit the labeling of cloned livestock and products derived from cloned livestock as organic.
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4855110th CongressTo require studies by the Secretary of Agriculture on the effects of food products from cloned animals entering the food supply.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 414110th CongressCloned Food Labeling Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1406111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 2663110th CongressCPSC Reform Act1 filingthrough 2008
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 2010
Laura LawlorMs. Laura Lawlor5 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
