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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
11 filings
$164K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
9 filings
$64K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Jason Rano15 filings1 client · through 2014
Scott Faber14 filings1 client · through 2017
Christine SigurdsonCovered position: Policy Fellow, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Sen. Tom Harkin Chair)6 filings1 client · through 2016
Alex FormuzisCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Jean Carnahan; Press Secretary, Sen. Kent Conrad; Deputy Communications Director & Communications Director, Sen. Frank Lautenberg6 filings1 client · through 2016
Christine Hill
The filings
The 20 most recent of 63 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: ewg-action-fund.
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 $278K in expenses.
FOO · 1 client
8 filings
$166K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
7 filings
$93K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES · 1 client
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
4 filings
$58K on those filings
Torts
TOR · 1 client
3 filings
$73K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
2 filings
$16K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 1 client
2 filings
$15K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
1 filing
$8K 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.
6 filings
1 client · through 2016
Libby FoleyCovered position: Intern, Sen. Mark Kirk6 filings1 client · through 2015
Mary Ellen Kustin5 filings1 client · through 2016
Scott Michael LavenderCovered position: Intern, Staff Asst., L.C. & L.A., Sen. Herb Kohl5 filings1 client · through 2015
Sandra Schubert5 filings1 client · through 2009
Colin O'Neil4 filings1 client · through 2017
Sarah Grantham4 filings1 client · through 2016
Reade Wilson3 filings1 client · through 2016
Alex RindlerCovered position: Staff Assistant & Intern, Sen. John Kerry1 filing1 client · through 2013
Covered positions · 5 of 13 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.
