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

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