Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR · 5 clients
255 filings
$4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 3 clients
88 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Steven D EtkaCovered position: former Deputy Legislative Director, Senator Herb Kohl268 filings6 clients · through 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 1 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.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Nature'S Path Foods, Inc
Canada
1 filing
through 2023
Nature'S Path Foods
Canada
1 filing
through 2021
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 270 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
National Organic Coalition, Inc Fka "Rural Advancement Foundation Intern..."
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: etka-consulting.
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.
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 $4.1M in fees and $0 in expenses.
FOO · 3 clients
78 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
63 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 2 clients
47 filings
$750K on those filings
Small Business
SMB · 3 clients
39 filings
$420K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
13 filings
$232K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 2 clients
11 filings
$185K on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
2 filings
$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 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.
