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: washington-state-potato-commission.
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.
ENV
15 filings
$263K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
13 filings
$293K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
12 filings
$270K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$225K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$225K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$225K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
8 filings
$180K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$23K 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
Railroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 953110th CongressRailroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1603117th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4996117th CongressOcean Shipping Reform Act of 20213 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 21110th CongressOceans Conservation, Education, and National Strategy for the 21st Century Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 8997118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 9027118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4690118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4927118th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20252 filingsthrough 2024
S. 3580117th CongressOcean Shipping Reform Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
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.
Jeff BjornstadWashington2 AdvocatesCovered position: CoS, Rep. Adam Smith19 filingsthrough 2016
Kristen MichalWashington2 AdvocatesCovered position: Leg. Assist., Sen. Gorton18 filingsthrough 2016
Karla ThiemanThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry16 filingsthrough 2021
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 Agencies11 filingsthrough 2021
Richard A AgnewVan Ness Feldman, LLP7 filingsthrough 2009
