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.
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.
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: louis-dreyfus-company-llc.
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.
13 filings
$50K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$330K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$330K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
6 filings
$45K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 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.
Michael K Torrey
Torrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)
Covered position: LA for Senators Kassebaum, Dole and Frahm, Asst. to CFTC Commissioner David Spears, USDA Dpty. Asst. Secretary Congressional Affairs, USDA Dpty. Chief of Staff for Secs. Veneman and Johanns
8 filingsthrough 2022
Tara SmithTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Senior Professional Staff Member to Senate Agriculture Committee8 filingsthrough 2022
JAMES ANDREW GLUECK jrTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Conf Asst/FSA, Dep Dir Intergovernmental Affairs, Dep White House Liaison, Congressional Liaison, Sr Advisor/FFAS for USDA; LA for Sen Johanns; Dep Staff Dir & Policy Dir, Sr Advisor, Staff Dir for Senate Ag, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee8 filingsthrough 2022
Trey ForsythTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Conf. Assistant/Policy Advisor to USTR Chief Ag Negotiator7 filingsthrough 2022
