Lobbying Relationship

Client

National Alliance of Forest Owners

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Lobbying firm

Torrey Advisory Group (formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)

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  • Issues related to forestry and climate change; issues included in the farm bill, policies related to climate change and carbon capture and storage and data as it relates to working forests. Forest Health. Issues related to the Forest Data Modernization Act of 2023 (S.1743 & H.R. 3990); general issues related to an online platform that would make forest health and carbon data available to stakeholders; issues related to educational grant programs to help colleges and universities train the next generation of engineers and architects on how to build with wood and mass timber; general issues to expand and strengthen the Wood Innovation Grant (WIG) program; general issues related to a new pilot program to integrate American-grown, innovative wood products into rural infrastructure and building projects; issues related to The Timber Innovation for Building Rural Communities Act (H.R.5044 & S.2662).
  • Issues related to foreign ownership of agricultural land. including the AFIDA Improvements Act of 2024 (S.3666).

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General Issues: Agriculture, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Environmental/Superfund, Immigration, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Government Issues

Spending: about $930,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2017: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Natl Economic Council (NEC)

Affiliated organizations: American Wood Council

Bills mentioned

S.538: Timber Innovation Act of 2017

Sponsor: Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)

H.R.1380: Timber Innovation Act of 2017

Sponsor: Suzan K. DelBene (D-Wash.)

H.R.2: Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018

Sponsor: K. Michael Conaway (R-Texas)

S.3042: Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018

Sponsor: Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)

S.1743: Forest Data Modernization Act of 2023

Sponsor: Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.)

H.R.3990: Forest Data Modernization Act of 2023

Sponsor: Kim Schrier (D-Wash.)

H.R.5044: Timber Innovation for Building Rural Communities Act

Sponsor: Andrea Salinas (D-Ore.)

S.2662: Timber Innovation for Building Rural Communities Act

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

S.3666: AFIDA Improvements Act of 2024

Sponsor: Mike Braun (R-Ind.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Michael Torrey 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, USDA 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, USDA 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, USDA
Tara Smith Senior Professional Staff Member to Senate Agriculture Committee
Trey Forsyth Confidential Assistant to USTR Chief Agricultural Negotiator.
Kerry Lynch n/a
Julie McClure Ph.D. n/a
Julie McClure PhD n/a
Julie McClure n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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