Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR · 11 clients
120 filings
$2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 5 clients
104 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Timothy CanslerCovered position: Assistant to Undersecretary, USDA Assistant to Administrator, USDA225 filings18 clients · through 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 1 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.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Logistec Corporation
Canada
8 filings
through 2020
Niedner, Inc.
Canada
5 filings
through 2019
Wavin
Netherlands
The filings
The 20 most recent of 250 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Client
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association
Ephi Gur Regulatory Consulting, Inc. on Behalf of Weedout, Ltd
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: cansler-consulting-llc.
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.
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 $2.8M in fees and $0 in expenses.
BUD · 8 clients
86 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 2 clients
47 filings
$870K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 2 clients
11 filings
$190K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 3 clients
10 filings
$120K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
7 filings
$130K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB · 1 client
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Animals
ANI · 1 client
5 filings
$60K 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.
3 filings
through 2020
Sanexen Environmental Services, Inc.
Canada
3 filings
through 2019
Orbia (Fomerly Mexichem)
Mexico
2 filings
through 2020
Sanexen Environmental Services
Canada
2 filings
through 2015
Weedout Ltd.
Israel
1 filing
through 2025
Logistec
Canada
1 filing
through 2019
Boehringer Ingelheim International Gmbh
Germany
1 filing
through 2018
Mexichem
Mexico
1 filing
through 2018
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
