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: national-association-of-wheat-growers.
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 $1.3M in expenses.
BUD · 1 client
28 filings
$634K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
21 filings
$484K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
19 filings
$454K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 1 client
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES · 1 client
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Railroads
RRR · 1 client
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU · 1 client
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT · 1 client
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
7 filings
$350K 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.
Brooke Shupe AppletonCovered position: Lobbyist16 filings1 client · through 2014
Will StaffordCovered position: Lobbyist14 filings1 client · through 2014
Dana Peterson13 filings1 client · through 2012
Craig Berning10 filings1 client · through 2019
Jane Demarchi10 filings1 client · through 2012
Daren Coppock8 filings1 client · through 2009
Jack Ryan Long7 filings1 client · through 2025
Taylor Williamson7 filings1 client · through 2023
Keira FranzCovered position: Lobyist6 filings1 client · through 2015
Eric J SteinerCovered position: USDA Chief of Staff, Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services6 filings1 client · through 2011
Cori WittmanCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Larry Craig6 filings1 client · through 2010
Jennifer Spurgat5 filings1 client · through 2008
Anthony Pena4 filings1 client · through 2026
Jack Block4 filings1 client · through 2015
Marshall Matz (Contractor)4 filings1 client · through 2015
Peter Matz4 filings1 client · through 2015
Molly O'Connor4 filings1 client · through 2015
Charlie Stenholm4 filings1 client · through 2015
Eden Shiferaw4 filings1 client · through 2015
Melissa George Kessler3 filings1 client · through 2013
Barry Morton3 filings1 client · through 2008
Sam Kieffer2 filings1 client · through 2026
Chandler Goule1 filing1 client · through 2016
Ben Bell1 filing1 client · through 2012
Katrina Custer1 filing1 client · through 2009
Demetrius Valentine1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 31 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.
