Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
66 filings
$24.7M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
55 filings
$25M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Thomas P. Langan53 filings1 client · through 2022
Mark Bescher31 filings1 client · through 2018
Stefani Grant28 filings1 client · through 2026
Devin SearsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Sen. Joe Manchin (2013) Intern, Sen. Joe Manchin (2012)17 filings1 client · through 2022
Lauren Beck12 filings1 client · through 2011
David Vernon Lustig
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Unilever N.V.
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2011
Unilever PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2011
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.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: unilever-united-states-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 $0 in fees and $28.6M in expenses.
ENV · 1 client
42 filings
$20M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
39 filings
$8.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
38 filings
$9.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
36 filings
$18.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
28 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 1 client
15 filings
$14.6M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
15 filings
$5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
13 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
13 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Animals
ANI · 1 client
11 filings
$8.2M 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.
11 filings1 client · through 2011
Patrick Fernando Uzcategui10 filings1 client · through 2024
Covered positions · 1 of 7 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.
