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.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
68 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
27 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Liz Clark40 filings1 client · through 2021
Daniel ShortsCovered position: Legislative Assistant House Committee on Education & the Workforce35 filings1 client · through 2025
Brian Michael MckeonCovered position: Legislative Aide Sen Boxer; Legislative Assistant Sen Boxer; Domestic Policy Advisor Sen Boxer; Senior Advisor Sen Boxer; Senior Counsel Sen Boxer; Legislative Director Senator Shaheen20 filings1 client · through 2026
Alison Bodor19 filings1 client · through 2016
Kelsey Freeman
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: national-confectioners-association.
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 $8.6M in expenses.
TRD · 1 client
22 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
5 filings
$323K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
1 filing
$75K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
1 filing
$60K 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.
13 filings
1 client · through 2015
Melane Rose Boyce10 filings1 client · through 2010
Julianna Cann8 filings1 client · through 2026
Anne Starke5 filings1 client · through 2026
Patrick Aylward4 filings1 client · through 2010
Lawrence Graham3 filings1 client · through 2008
Cassie Folk2 filings1 client · through 2008
Kelley Poole1 filing1 client · through 2009
Covered positions · 2 of 12 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.
