Lobbying Relationship

Client

Hampton Creek

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Lobbying firm

Heather Podesta + Partners, LLC

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  • Educate Members of Congress and Administration officials about barriers that limit innovation and efforts to bring consumers healthier and more affordable food products; monitored report language included in H. Report 114-531 related to Freedom of Information Act requests.
  • Educate Members of Congress about issues relating to FDA's standards of identity process.

Duration: to

General Issues: Agriculture, Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $440,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, White House Office, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)

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?
Heather Podesta Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui; Counsel, Representative Earl Pomeroy; Legislative Fellow, Senator Bill Bradley; Research Assistant, Congressional Budget Office
Mary Stanton Legislative Assistant, Senator Herb Kohl; Policy Advisor, Senate Aging Committee; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Anthony Weiner; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Herb Kohl; Staff Assistant, Senator Herb Kohl; Intern, Rep. Richard Gephardt
Benjamin Klein Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan; Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan
Jonathan Becker Chief of Staff, Senator Amy Klobuchar; Chief Counsel, Senator Amy Klobuchar
Amy Swonger Whip Liaison, Senator Trent Lott; Dep Asst for Leg Aff, Vice President Dick Cheney; Fl Asst, Senator Mitch McConnell; Legislative Assistant, Senator Trent Lott; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Walter Jones; Intern, Rep. Walter Jones
Anne MacMillan Staff Assistant, Representative Bob Matsui; Legislative Assistant/Legislative Director, Representative Dennis Cardoza; Policy Advisor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Deputy Chief of Staff, US Department of Agriculture

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.

Termination
Q2 Report
Q1 Report
Q4 Report
Q3 Report
Q2 Report
Registration

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

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