U.S. Beet Sugar Association (Usbsa) — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
U.S. Beet Sugar Association (Usbsa)
District of Columbia
17 filings from 1 registrant · 2021–2025 · latest filed Mar 11, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$780K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$780K
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
17 filings
$780K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
17 filings
$780K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8239117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4368118th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20242 filingsthrough 2023
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: u-s-beet-sugar-association-usbsa.
17 filings
$780K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$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.
118th Congress
SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
2 filingsthrough 2023
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.
George Cooper
Forbes-Tate
12 filingsthrough 2024
Adrienne SchweerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Protocol, Office of the Secretary of Defense (2014-2016); Senior Aide and Director of Scheduling, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2006-2008); Staff Assistant, Sen. Chuck Hagel (2005)6 filingsthrough 2022
Kristina DunklinForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Susan Brooks (2018-2019); Legislative Director, Rep. David Valadao (2015-2018); Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Valadao (2014-2015)3 filingsthrough 2021
Ryan McconaghyForbes-TateCovered position: Asst Sec for the Minority Sen (2017-2018) Staff Dir Dem Policy and Comms Ctr Sen (2014-2017) Policy Dir Dem Policy and Comms Ctr Sen (2012-2014) LD Rep Hall (2007-2009) LA Sen Schumer (2003-2006) LC Sen Schumer (2001-2003) SA Sen Schumer (1999-2000)3 filingsthrough 2021
Rachel MillerForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2003-2007); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eliot Engel (2000-2003)2 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
