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: farm-credit-council.
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 $6M in expenses.
TRA · 1 client
30 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Banking
BAN · 1 client
19 filings
$2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
13 filings
$530K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
11 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
4 filings
$190K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK · 1 client
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
1 filing
$20K 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:
23 filings1 client · through 2026
Kenneth E AuerCovered position: N/A20 filings1 client · through 2015
Tony WatlingtonCovered position: Congressional Fellow (Rep. Alma Adams (NC-12)); Congressional Intern (Fmr. Rep. Mark Walker (NC-6)); Congressional Intern (Rep. Alma Adams (NC-12))15 filings1 client · through 2026
L Todd VanhooseCovered position: N/A8 filings1 client · through 2019
Covered positions · 7 of 8 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.
