AMERICAN HORTICULTURE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

Lobbying for AMERICAN HORTICULTURE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

Filing 4th Quarter - Report

Reporting period

4th Quarter 2025

Oct 1 - Dec 31 · Posted Jan 19, 2026

Expenses

$20,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using C: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 2

MATTHEW D. MIKA

Previously held: VP, Advocacy and Government Affairs
RACHEL PICK

Previously held: Senior Manager, Advocacy & Government Affairs

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 10

Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
SENATE
Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
White House Office

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 6

Immigration

Agricultural labor and Workforce; immigration; H-2A reform; H-2B cap relief and reform; related bills; mandatory E-Verify

Budget/Appropriations

USDA budget; USDA-ARS Floriculture & Nursery Research Initiative; EPA Budget; Continuing resolution and omnibus spending bill negotiations FY2026 Appropriations

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Tax reform; restore option of expensing of research and development investments or capitalizing such expenditures; Cash accounting for agriculture; 199a; estate tax; Reconciliation Bill

Agriculture

2026 Farm Bill, Priorities for the Horticulture industry relating to Horticulture, Research, Crop Protection, and Disaster/Crop Insurance Respond to requests for comment and monitor the efforts of the House Agricultural Labor Working Group Agricultural Labeling Uniformity Act MASC Funding Economic relief for the horticultural industry MAHA Commission Report

Trade (domestic/foreign)

General trade issues Imports and exports Ports Tariffs

Transportation

General Transportation Supply Chain - trucking, railroads, waterways, ports Truck Weights Truck Driver Shortage CDLs

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.