Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR · 86 clients
1,408 filings
$65.5M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 32 clients
344 filings
$17.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this firm's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Dan BishopR-North Carolina-AL
Bills: H.R. 4721, H.R. 5106, H.R. 9207
18 filings
1 lobbyist
Al FrankenD-Minnesota
Bills: S. 502
9 filings
3 lobbyists
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Randall RussellCovered position: N/A1,815 filings109 clients · through 2026
Tyson RedpathCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Rep. John Boehner1,568 filings100 clients · through 2026
Andrew HarkerCovered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern1,177 filings75 clients · through 2026
Jessica SchulkenCovered position: Clerk and Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies761 filings
Foreign interests disclosed
The 15 most frequently disclosed of 20 foreign entities named on this registrant's filings.
Strauss Group Ltd.
Israel
12 filings
through 2020
Siemens Ag
Germany
9 filings
through 2020
Siemens Healthineers Ag
The filings
The 20 most recent of 2,126 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: the-russell-group-inc.
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.
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 $98.3M in fees and $0 in expenses.
ENG · 6 clients
108 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 11 clients
108 filings
$4.9M on those filings
Animals
ANI · 7 clients
97 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB · 1 client
70 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 5 clients
51 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 10 clients
47 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 1 client
34 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 4 clients
34 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV · 3 clients
32 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 5 clients
32 filings
$1.6M 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.
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this firm's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
56 clients · through 2026
Karla ThiemanCovered position: Chief of Staff, USDA; Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry390 filings47 clients · through 2021
Samantha Buchalter353 filings33 clients · through 2026
Ashlee Nicole JohnsonCovered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Mike Ross; Executive Assistant, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Legislative Analyst, White House Liaison, Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary, USDA; Policy Assistant, Domestic Policy Council321 filings35 clients · through 2026
Edward BarronCovered position: Senate Agric. Comm. - Deputy Chief Counsel/Chief of Staff ; ; S. Envir.Pub.Works Com - Deputy COS; Sen. Jud. Chief Counsel238 filings33 clients · through 2011
Danielle Russell BeckCovered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. Tom Rooney70 filings16 clients · through 2016
Dorothy Bond67 filings14 clients · through 2014
William LesherCovered position: N/A65 filings16 clients · through 2008
Kate Thompson53 filings10 clients · through 2026
Alex NoffsingerCovered position: Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Intern53 filings15 clients · through 2021
Savannah Block35 filings12 clients · through 2019
Morgan Orem17 filings4 clients · through 2024
Alex Smith13 filings7 clients · through 2026
Justina GraffCovered position: Deputy Clerk, House Agriculture Committee; Intern, House Agriculture Committee10 filings3 clients · through 2023
Allison CrittendenCovered position: House Agriculture Committee Intern10 filings5 clients · through 2017
Laura L WoodCovered position: Sen. Jud. Comm. Legal Intern; Rep. Moore Intern10 filings6 clients · through 2011
Bradley BaileyCovered position: N/A6 filings2 clients · through 2008
Andrew VlasatyCovered position: USDA office of Congressional Relations1 filing1 client · through 2009
Covered positions · 16 of 22 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.
Germany
9 filings
through 2020
Siemens Healthineers Beteiligungen Gmbh & Co. Kg
Germany
9 filings
through 2020
Mastronardi Produce Limited
Canada
6 filings
through 2020
Novozymes A/S
Denmark
5 filings
through 2020
Nutrien Ltd.
Canada
4 filings
through 2020
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (Corporate Affiliate)
Canada
4 filings
through 2020
Seven-Eleven Japan CO.,LTD.
Japan
2 filings
through 2017
Jbs
Brazil
2 filings
through 2008
Jbs Sa
Brazil
2 filings
through 2008
Diageo PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2023
Itochu Corporation
Japan
1 filing
through 2023
Upl Corporation Limited
Mauritania
1 filing
through 2023
Upl Corporation Ltd.
Cayman Islands
1 filing
through 2023
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
