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 lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Barbara HidenAmerican Beverage Association71 filingsthrough 2025
Mary Elizabeth StantonInvariant LLCCovered position: Intern, Rep. Richard Gephardt65 filingsthrough 2026
Franklin L DavisAmerican Beverage Association64 filingsthrough 2026
Michael K TorreyTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC) LA for Senators Kassebaum, Dole and Frahm ; ; Asst. to Commissioner David Spears, CFTC ; ; Dpty. Asst. Secretary, Congressional Affairs, USDA ; ; Dpty. Chief of Staff, Secs Veneman and Johanns, USDA
The filings
The 20 most recent of 330 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Torrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: american-beverage-association.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
TAX
160 filings
$42.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
153 filings
$42.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
137 filings
$41.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
120 filings
$34.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
31 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
18 filings
$630K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
11 filings
$305K on those filings
Minting/Money/Gold Standard
MON
8 filings
$868K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
7 filings
$2.1M 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 spend 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.
113th Congress
Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 201413 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 201313 filingsthrough 2014
S. 351119th CongressSTEWARD Act of 202512 filingsthrough 2026
S. 984117th CongressBreak Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 202111 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1632115th CongressProtecting Foods and Beverages from Government Attack Act of 201711 filingsthrough 2018
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Robert WoodBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff to HHS Secretary; Intern to Rep. Scott Klug39 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer Larkin LukawskiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg. Dir. Rep. Dornan, Ex. Dir., U.S. House Con. Act. Team (Rep. Study Comm.); Intern, Staff Asst. Rep. Courter39 filingsthrough 2026
Tara SmithTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)36 filingsthrough 2022
Susan NeelyAmerican Beverage Association33 filingsthrough 2016
David BockornyBockorny Group, Inc.32 filingsthrough 2017
Barbara PattersonTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Intern for Senator Bill Nelson30 filingsthrough 2026
Paul Scott ShearerBockorny Group, Inc.26 filingsthrough 2015
Andrew J LewinBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Dennis Moore; Leg Asst/Dir., Rep. Max Sandlin; Intern, House Min. Leader Richard Gephardt25 filingsthrough 2026
Blair C LarkinsBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant to Rep. Greg Walden (05-06)23 filingsthrough 2017
Benjamin KleinInvariant LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)22 filingsthrough 2018
Logan Lawrence HollersInvariant LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor / Counsel, Senator Jeff Merkley (2018-2021); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (2017-2018)21 filingsthrough 2026
Patrice WilloughbyInvariant LLCCovered position: Dep Assoc Admin, Intergovt Affairs Office, GSA (2011-2012); Exec Dir, CBC, Rep. Barbara Lee (2008-2011); Leg Asst, Counsel, Chief/Staff, Rep. Tubbs Jones (2000-2008)21 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew Scott EltingAmerican Beverage Association21 filingsthrough 2015
Andrew Charles DodsonBockorny Group, Inc.21 filingsthrough 2014
Erskine W WellsBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing19 filingsthrough 2021
JAMES ALOYSIUS MCGREEVY iiiAmerican Beverage Association18 filingsthrough 2014
Brenda ReeseBockorny Group, Inc.17 filingsthrough 2013
