• Advocate on issues relating to the confectionery industry

Duration: November 1, 2007 to present

General Issues: Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Agriculture, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Budget/Appropriations, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Foreign Relations

Spending: about $6,981,060 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Labor - Dept of (DOL), State - Dept of (DOS), Natl Economic Council (NEC), House of Representatives, Senate, Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Y Y US House, US Senate, USDA, FDA, US Department of State, US Trade Representative