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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
70 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Insurance
INS
12 filings
$800K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 29 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1240117th CongressFEEDD Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 359117th CongressFEEDD Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
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: crop-insurance-and-reinsurance-bureau.
7 filings
$220K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$80K 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.
114th Congress
Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
S. 345114th CongressA bill to limit the level of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to agricultural producers.6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 463114th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit the paying of premium subsidies on policies based on the actual market price of an agricultural commodity at the time of harvest.6 filingsthrough 2016
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 2025.6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2244114th CongressAFFIRM Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Covered position:
20 filingsthrough 2022
Ashley SmithTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: USDA Deputy Director External and Intergovernmental Affairs, USDA Advance Lead15 filingsthrough 2026
Danielle NelsonTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent/Press Assistant, Staff Assistant - Congressman Bob Gibbs. Intern, Congresswoman Diane Black.11 filingsthrough 2025
Christy SeyfertTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: (no Senate lobbying contacts until ban expired)8 filingsthrough 2013
Paul Edward BleibergTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: LC and LA for Rep Randy Kuhl7 filingsthrough 2011
Bradley Austin MckinneyTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)6 filingsthrough 2017
Eden LambertTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)5 filingsthrough 2026
Heath Casper BrandtTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Minority Intern for the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee.3 filingsthrough 2024
Jacqueline MuhammadTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Correspondent and Legislative Aide for Senator Mark Kirk; Outreach Director for Rep Lauren Underwood3 filingsthrough 2023
Trey ForsythTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)2 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 7 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
