43 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2025 · latest filed Oct 20, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
43 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
43 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1393114th CongressInnovation in Surface Transportation Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 274114th CongressUnited States-Cuba Normalization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
Michael K TorreyTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: 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, USDA47 filingsthrough 2025
Tara SmithTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Senate Ag Comm., Senior Professional Staff47 filingsthrough 2025
Kerry E LynchTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)23 filingsthrough 2020
Ashley SmithTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 43 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30) 2025
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: illinois-soybean-association.
27 filings
$1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$280K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$150K 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
Free Trade With Cuba Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 634114th CongressExport Freedom to Cuba Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 635114th CongressPromoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 664114th CongressFreedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 7940116th CongressProtect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act2 filingsthrough 2020
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: USDA Deputy Director External and Intergovernmental Affairs, USDA Advance Lead
14 filingsthrough 2025
Trey ForsythTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Confidential Assistant to USTR Chief Agricultural Negotiator.7 filingsthrough 2022
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
Sarah Elizabeth HubbartTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Torrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)
