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: western-growers.
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.
45 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
33 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
31 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
22 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
21 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
18 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$380K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$400K 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.
112th Congress
Child Tax Credit Equality for Puerto Rico Act of 2011
6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2749112th CongressNanotechnology Advancement and New Opportunities Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4572112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Dinotefuran.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4645112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on combination smoker, roaster, and grills.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5088112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the rate of duty on 4-Bromobenzyl Bromide.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5475112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on polycrystalline alumina discharge tubes prefilled with metal halide salts and designated for high intensity discharge (HID) lamps.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5504112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the rate of duty on Dichloroacetyl Chloride.6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1038112th CongressPATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1733112th CongressCommission on the Review of the Overseas Military Facility Structure of the United States Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2819112th CongressA bill to suspend temporarily the duty on plastic mesh for filters (high flow).6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3307112th Congress21st Century Investment Act of 20126 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3664112th CongressA bill to provide for debt limit extensions.6 filingsthrough 2012
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.
George Nicholas CaramMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Staff Officer, Special Assistant, National Security Council; Sr. Legislative Assistant, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Sr. Staff Assistant, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Special Assistant, Rep. C.W. Bill Young.9 filingsthrough 2022
MAXIMILIAN ATLAS MERRILL esqWestern Growers9 filingsthrough 2015
Robert SchrammSchramm, Williams & Associates, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
Caley WhiteSchramm, Williams & Associates, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
Jonathan HilerMiller Strategies, LLCCovered position: Director of Legislative Affairs, Office of the Vice President, Mike Pence; Legislative Director, Senator Tom Cotton; Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Cotton; Policy Advisor, Rep. Mike Pence; Policy Advisor, Rep. Jeb Hensarling.3 filingsthrough 2022
Joe TraugerJoe TraugerCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Rod Grams3 filingsthrough 2010
Cory LundeWestern Growers1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 5 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
