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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
60 filings
$55.5M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
59 filings
$55.3M on those filings
Agriculture
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Dan ChristensonCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); Chief of Staff, USDA Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; Senior Policy Advisor, USDA Food and Nutrition Services; Senior Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture36 filings1 client · through 2026
Sarah TowlesCovered position: Legislative Dir., Domestic Policy Adv., Legislative Asst., Sen. Jeff Flake; Legislative Asst., Rep. Jeff Flake; Legislative Asst., Legislative Correspondent, Staff Asst., Rep. Connie Mack.35 filings1 client · through 2026
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: pepsico-inc.
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 $63.6M in expenses.
AGR · 1 client
49 filings
$44.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
49 filings
$43.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
38 filings
$33M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
35 filings
$31.9M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
32 filings
$34.1M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU · 1 client
30 filings
$29.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
25 filings
$21.2M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
19 filings
$18.8M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS · 1 client
17 filings
$16.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
16 filings
$16.3M 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.
25 filings
1 client · through 2015
Paul Boykas22 filings1 client · through 2022
Richard MartinelliCovered position: Intern, Rep. Engel's office18 filings1 client · through 2016
Brigitte Schmidt Gwyn17 filings1 client · through 2026
Diego Tomas Ruiz13 filings1 client · through 2013
Macy PlacideCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant and Intern Coordinator, Office of Sen. John Barrasso12 filings1 client · through 2026
Omar A Vargas12 filings1 client · through 2011
Courtney Nese10 filings1 client · through 2026
Galen J Reser10 filings1 client · through 2010
Joel T Leftwich9 filings1 client · through 2014
Kimberly BetzCovered position: Office of National Drug Control Policy7 filings1 client · through 2012
Chelsee WoodeyCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, and Staff Assistant, Sen. Jim Bunning6 filings1 client · through 2026
Courtney HoganCovered position: Staff assistant, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick6 filings1 client · through 2023
Bernadette HobsonCovered position: Deputy White House Liaison, U.S. Department of Agriculture6 filings1 client · through 2018
Stephanie ChildsCovered position: Senior Advisor, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce6 filings1 client · through 2016
Olivia Zalesin1 filing1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 10 of 19 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.
