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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: american-farm-bureau-fed.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $42.5M in expenses.
69 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
69 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
69 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
69 filings
$42.5M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
68 filings
$42M on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES · 1 client
66 filings
$40.8M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
66 filings
$40.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
64 filings
$39.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
62 filings
$38.7M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
62 filings
$38.5M 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 money 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.
Covered position: legislative intern for Senator Campbell in 1997
58 filings1 client · through 2025
Andrew Thomas Walmsley56 filings1 client · through 2023
Paul Schlegel56 filings1 client · through 2020
RONALD JOSEPH KARNEY jr56 filings1 client · through 2020
Veronica Nigh Swerdlow53 filings1 client · through 2022
Dale W Moore52 filings1 client · through 2022
Danielle D'Ana Quist47 filings1 client · through 2018
Mary Kay Thatcher45 filings1 client · through 2018
Bob YoungCovered position: Chief Economist, Senate Ag Comm.42 filings1 client · through 2017
Travis Cushman33 filings1 client · through 2026
John NewtonCovered position: Chief Economist, Senate Agriculture Committee28 filings1 client · through 2026
Kristi J Boswell27 filings1 client · through 2017
John Daniel AndersonCovered position: N/A27 filings1 client · through 2016
Shelby Lynne HagenauerCovered position: Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation25 filings1 client · through 2026
Kelli Ludlum24 filings1 client · through 2014
Courtney BriggsCovered position: Director of Legislative Correspondence, Sen. Lindsey Graham21 filings1 client · through 2026
Samuel A. Kieffer21 filings1 client · through 2025
Matthew EricksonCovered position: Confidential Assistant, USDA Rural Development19 filings1 client · through 2015
Mark A Maslyn18 filings1 client · through 2013
Tyler WegmeyerCovered position: '03-'04 Senate Ag Comm.; '04-'07 House Ag Comm.18 filings1 client · through 2013
Kendra KellerCovered position: Office of Sen. Larry Craig 09/07-06/0817 filings1 client · through 2014
Johnie Walter Boatright16 filings1 client · through 2026
Dustin ShererCovered position: Legislative Assistant to Senator Cory Gardner16 filings1 client · through 2025
Covered positions · 23 of 64 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
