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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
174 filings
$41.5M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
119 filings
$39M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 139 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.18 filingsthrough 2016
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 201317 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 10545119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeff HarrisonCombest, Sell & Associates, LLC74 filingsthrough 2026
Tom Douglas SellCombest, Sell & Associates, LLC73 filingsthrough 2026
Phillip HayesNorth Bridge Communications, Inc.Covered position: Rep. Dickey (Leg Asst); Sen Ag (Subcom Staff Dir)51 filingsthrough 2021
John RoneyAmerican Sugar Alliance51 filingsthrough 2021
Larry CombestCombest, Sell & Associates, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 191 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-sugar-alliance.
$2.8M
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
BUD
60 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$430K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$40K 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.
16 filingsthrough 2026
H.Con.Res. 12118th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar-producing and -consuming countries should be eliminated.16 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2617118th CongressChoices for Stranded Passengers Act of 202316 filingsthrough 2024
H.Con.Res. 7116th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar-producing and -consuming countries should be eliminated.16 filingsthrough 2020
H.Con.Res. 40115th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.16 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 20114th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar producing and consuming countries should be eliminated.16 filingsthrough 2016
S. 475114th CongressSugar Reform Act of 201516 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 201316 filingsthrough 2014
H.Con.Res. 43117th CongressExpressing the sense of Congress that all direct and indirect subsidies that benefit the production or export of sugar by all major sugar-producing and -consuming countries should be eliminated.14 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4680117th CongressFair Sugar Policy Act of 202114 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5305117th CongressExtending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act14 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5305118th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1157 West Mission Avenue in Escondido, California, as the "Captain E. Royce Williams Post Office Building".13 filingsthrough 2024
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.
