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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Insurance
INS · 1 client
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Alexa CombelicCovered position: LD, LA, Rep Joe Courtney, 2014-2020; Leg. Aide, Sen. Chris Murphy, 2013-2014; SA, Rep. Chris Murphy, 2010-2011, 201227 filings1 client · through 2026
Virginia Leigh HoustonCovered position: USDA, 2009-11; Sen. Lamar Alexander, 200827 filings1 client · through 2026
Kyle KunklerCovered position: Senior LA, LA, Rep. Dan Newhouse, 2015-2017; LA, LC, and SA, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, 2009-2013.24 filings1 client · through 2025
Christy SeyfertCovered position: Senior Prof. Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 2005-11, Prof. Staff, House Committee on Agriculture 2004-05, Deputy CoS and LD, Rep. Burns 2003-04, Subcommittee Staff Director, House Committee on Agriculture 1999-2002
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: american-soybean-association.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $5.7M in expenses.
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
27 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
25 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
25 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
24 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
22 filings
$5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
22 filings
$5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
21 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
21 filings
$4.8M 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 money 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.
23 filings1 client · through 2024
Joe ProsserCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Duarte, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Ernst12 filings1 client · through 2026
Carson Fort12 filings1 client · through 2026
Ariel A Wiegard12 filings1 client · through 2023
Joshua Rahm6 filings1 client · through 2026
Madelyn DerksCovered position: Legislative Director (July 2024-August 2025) and Senior Legislative Assistant (January 2023-July 2024) for Rep. Mark Alford (MO-04), Legislative Assistant November 2021-January 2023, Staff Assistant May 2021-November 2021, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (MO-04)4 filings1 client · through 2026
Hanna Abou-El-SeoudCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Policy Analyst for Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, April 2011-March 20153 filings1 client · through 2020
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
