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
99 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
78 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 63 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1105114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 201516 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1589114th CongressTo prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to make a final determination on the listing of the northern long-eared bat under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.16 filingsthrough 2016
William Irvin TelligmanSoutheastern Lumber Manufacturers Association47 filingsthrough 2023
Tara SmithTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Senior Professional Staff Member to Senate Agriculture Committee28 filingsthrough 2025
G Thomas CatorG. Thomas Cator24 filingsthrough 2013
Megan ZavertnikMz Advising, LLCCovered position: Clerk - House Armed Services Committee, MLA - Rep. Vicky Hartzler, LD - Rep. Steve Knight, NSA - Senator David Perdue18 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 132 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: southeastern-lumber-manufacturers-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.
ENV
71 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
48 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
29 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
16 filings
$992K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
12 filings
$1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
11 filings
$982K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
10 filings
$509K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
8 filings
$302K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
7 filings
$441K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$342K 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
Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 2015
16 filingsthrough 2016
S. 128114th CongressEnergy Efficiency Improvement Act of 201516 filingsthrough 2016
S. 535114th CongressEnergy Efficiency Improvement Act of 201516 filingsthrough 2016
S. 54114th CongressRegulatory Fairness Act of 201516 filingsthrough 2016
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.15 filingsthrough 2016
S. 860114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 201515 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 2025.15 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1140114th CongressFederal Water Quality Protection Act14 filingsthrough 2016
H.J.Res. 27118th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Revised Definition of 'Waters of the United States'".9 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.
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, USDA16 filingsthrough 2017
Matthew PoeSoutheastern Lumber Manufacturers Association14 filingsthrough 2026
JULIE MALICKI MCCLURE phdTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)12 filingsthrough 2025
Sarah Elizabeth HubbartTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)12 filingsthrough 2016
Kerry E LynchTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)10 filingsthrough 2017
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Shelby (2005-2007); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Shelby (2002-2005)7 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind (2003-2009)7 filingsthrough 2026
Richard Fernando LopezForbes-Tate7 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Doug Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Doug Jones (2018-2019)7 filingsthrough 2026
Nona MccoyTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Professional Staff Member Senate Appropriations Interior, Environment & Related Agencies Subcommittee; Senior Advisor for Senate Ag Nutrition and Forestry Committee; Senior Advisor, Subcommittee Staff Director for House Agriculture Committee7 filingsthrough 2025
Tori SmithForbes-TateCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (2023-2025).4 filingsthrough 2026
Arthur Dennis SidneyForbes-TateCovered position: LD & Chief Counsel, Rep. Jackson Lee (2008-2009); Chief of staff and chief counsel, Rep. Johnson (2009-2020)3 filingsthrough 2025
