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.
John GordleyGordley AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Assistant to Sen. Dole; Special Assistant to President Reagan for Policy Development56 filingsthrough 2020
Beverly PaulGordley AssociatesCovered position: Staff Assistant/Scheduler to Sen. Kerrey 1989-1991; Legislative Assistant to Sen. Kerrey 1998-2001; Legislative Assistant to Sen. Nelson 2001-200256 filingsthrough 2020
Thomas James HanceGordley AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director/Chief of Staff to Rep. Virgil Goode, Jr. January 1997-January 200352 filingsthrough 2019
Alexa Combelic
The filings
The 20 most recent of 75 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-soybean-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.
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Insurance
INS
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
25 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
24 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
22 filings
$5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
22 filings
$5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
21 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
21 filings
$4.8M 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.
116th Congress
Universal Broadband Act of 2020
2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 8337116th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act2 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act1 filingthrough 2021
S. 1931117th CongressSurface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
S. 2016117th CongressSurface Transportation Investment Act of 20211 filingthrough 2021
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.
American Soybean Association
Covered position: LD, LA, Rep Joe Courtney, 2014-2020; Leg. Aide, Sen. Chris Murphy, 2013-2014; SA, Rep. Chris Murphy, 2010-2011, 2012
27 filingsthrough 2026
Virginia Leigh HoustonAmerican Soybean AssociationCovered position: USDA, 2009-11; Sen. Lamar Alexander, 200827 filingsthrough 2026
Hanna Abou-El-SeoudGordley AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Policy Analyst for Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry April 2011- March 201525 filingsthrough 2019
Kyle KunklerAmerican Soybean AssociationCovered position: Senior LA, LA, Rep. Dan Newhouse, 2015-2017; LA, LC, and SA, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, 2009-2013.24 filingsthrough 2025
Christy SeyfertAmerican Soybean AssociationCovered position: Senior Prof. Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 2005-11, Prof. Staff, House Committee on Agriculture 2004-05, Deputy CoS and LD, Rep. Burns 2003-04, Subcommittee Staff Director, House Committee on Agriculture 1999-200223 filingsthrough 2024
Dale ThorensonGordley AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Agriculture Policy Advisor to Sen. Dorgan October 1999-October 200221 filingsthrough 2019
Renee MunasifiGordley AssociatesCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor/Legislative Assistant to Rep. Noem 2011-January 2017; Confidential Assistant, Office of Congressional Affairs, Office of the Secretary USDA 2008-2009; Intern for Sen. Thune 200815 filingsthrough 2019
Patrick Neal DelaneyGordley AssociatesCovered position: Director of Policy Communications15 filingsthrough 2018
Joe ProsserAmerican Soybean AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Duarte, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Ernst12 filingsthrough 2026
Tonya KempGordley AssociatesCovered position: Washington Represenative6 filingsthrough 2009
Madelyn DerksAmerican Soybean AssociationCovered position: Legislative Director (July 2024-August 2025) and Senior Legislative Assistant (January 2023-July 2024) for Rep. Mark Alford (MO-04), Legislative Assistant November 2021-January 2023, Staff Assistant May 2021-November 2021, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (MO-04)4 filingsthrough 2026
Hanna Abou-El-SeoudAmerican Soybean AssociationCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Policy Analyst for Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, April 2011-March 20153 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 17 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
