MATTHEW MIKA

AMERICAN HORTICULTURE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION · WASHINGTON, DC · registered since 2024

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At a glance

Registered since

2024

Senate LDA system

Clients

last 3 years

Filings

7 agencies contacted

Activity

filings by quarter

Works on

Agriculture 5 Budget/Appropriations 5 Immigration 5 Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 5 Trade (domestic/foreign) 5 Transportation 5

Background

Government experience

Advocacy and Government Affairs

Disclosed on LD-2 filings

Career

AMERICAN HORTICULTURE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

WASHINGTON, DC

2024 - present

Specific issues

2025 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

Agriculture · 2025 Q1

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

Immigration · 2025 Q1

General Trade issues Imports and exports Ports

Trade (domestic/foreign) · 2025 Q1

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

Transportation · 2025 Q1

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

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code · 2025 Q1

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

Budget/Appropriations · 2025 Q1