• 2024 Farm Bill requests for the increase TSP Access Act marker bill and held meetings with staff and members to voice requests for USDA intra- and extra-mural research programs.
• Farm Bill requests - support for USDA research programs, revisions to NRCS Technical Service Providers program.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to present

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Agriculture, Science/Technology, Government Issues, Environmental/Superfund, Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Natural Resources

Spending: about $355,000 (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), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House Office