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.
Immigration
IMM
40 filings
$782K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
40 filings
$782K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 76 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2087115th CongressDAIRY Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 281115th CongressFamily Farm Relief Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
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-united-dairymen.
39 filings
$772K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
39 filings
$772K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
38 filings
$754K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
36 filings
$710K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
36 filings
$710K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
35 filings
$700K on those filings
Animals
ANI
34 filings
$680K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
22 filings
$430K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
17 filings
$340K 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.
115th Congress
Farm Regulatory Certainty Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 704114th CongressRFS Reform Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2690115th CongressAgricultural Worker Program Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 778115th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act7 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 872112th CongressReducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20115 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.
