National Cotton Council

Based in TN

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AI Overview

With $9.3M in lobbying spend across 32 quarterly filings, National Cotton Council is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. They deploy 13 individual lobbyists Their lobbying covers 1 issue area. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$9.3M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$1.1M
2019	$1.2M
2020	$1.3M
2021	$1.2M
2022	$1.1M
2023	$1.1M
2024	$1.2M
2025	$1.2M

Issues Lobbied

Agriculture

Lobbying Firms

National Cotton Council

Lobbyists

Gary Adams Robert Brown Sidney Johnson Robbie Minnich Thomas Langley Matthew Valesko Steven Hensley Jody Campiche William Ashley William Frierson Jeffrey Kuckuck Aubrey Fowler Abigail Huie

Government Agencies Targeted

These are the government entities that National Cotton Council disclosed contacting in their lobbying filings.

Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers)Commerce, Dept of (DOC)Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Food & Drug Administration (FDA)HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESOccupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)SENATEState, Dept of (DOS)Transportation, Dept of (DOT)U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)White House OfficeFederal Motor Carrier Safety AdministrationLabor, Dept of (DOL)Risk Management AgencySurface Transportation Board (STB)Office of Management & Budget (OMB)Defense Logistics AgencyU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)+15 more

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What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Agriculture

Meetings with members of Congress and staff regarding support for an administrative cotton ginning cost share program

Meetings with members of Congress and staff regarding a legislative proposal for

Presidents Budget Proposal for FY 2019

Letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Admini

Meetings with Congress, USTR and USDA regarding trade policy issues, including NAFTA, China cotton import policy, and WTO

Issues surrounding non-farmer owned cotton gins and cottonseed storage under

Contacts with USDA regarding government shutdown procedures and solution to restart the operation of the marketing loan.

Submitted comments urging approval of the draft EIS for the Caldwell Canyon Mi