Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
Direct Selling Association
District of Columbia
70 filings · 1 client · 14 lobbyists registered · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 15, 2026
Fees billed to clients
$0
never billed a fee — files for itself
Its own lobbying spend
$430K
filed on its own behalf
Clients represented
1
14 lobbyists registered
Reported 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 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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
65 filings
$290K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
58 filings
$430K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
- John W WebbCovered position: Leg Asst Congressman Van Hilleary70 filings1 client · through 2026
- Brian Bennett35 filings1 client · through 2024
- Joseph N MarianoCovered position: Leg. Asst., Office of Congressman Van Hilleary27 filings1 client · through 2020
- Dean Heyl15 filings1 client · through 2011
- Adolfo FrancoCovered position: Asst Administrator USAID Latin America
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: direct-selling-association.