183 filings from 12 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jun 6, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$63.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$56.4M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$6.7M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Jeremy StumpMonsanto CompanyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, USDA, Senior Advisor for International and Homeland, Security Affairs and Biotechnology, USDA, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and, Regulatory Programs, USDA, Homeland Security Director, USDA, Confidential Assistant to the Secretary, USDA, Senior LA, Congressman Thomas W. Ewing, LC, Congressman Thomas W. Ewing, Scheduler, Congressman Thomas W. Ewing
The filings
The 20 most recent of 183 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: monsanto-company.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
LBR
55 filings
$30.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
52 filings
$53.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
51 filings
$56.8M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
50 filings
$56.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
50 filings
$56.8M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
49 filings
$57M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
29 filings
$29.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
26 filings
$23.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$16.1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
8 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
13 filings
through 2010
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 200712 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 422111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.11 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1759110th CongressAgriculture Competition Enhancement Act of 200710 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2098111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1712110th CongressResearch and Development Tax Credit Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
32 filingsthrough 2018
Scott KuschmiderMonsanto Company28 filingsthrough 2018
Michael HollandMonsanto Company28 filingsthrough 2018
Michael DykesMonsanto Company27 filingsthrough 2015
Nick MauroCrawford & Mauro Law Firm25 filingsthrough 2016
Jerry CrawfordCrawford & Mauro Law Firm25 filingsthrough 2016
Benjamin Craig NobleNoble StrategiesCovered position: LA, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; LA, Sen. Dale Bumpers20 filingsthrough 2015
Kasey GilletteMonsanto CompanyCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Harry Reid, (2009 - 2014), Deputy Legislative Director, Senator Bob Casey, (2007 - 2009), Policy Advisor, Senator Debbie Stabenow, (2005 - 2007), Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Bob Graham, (2002 - 2004), Legislative Assistant, Senator Bob Graham, (2001 - 2002), Legislative Correspondent,, Senator Bob Graham (2000 - 2001), Staff Assistant, Senator Bob Graham, (2000), Intern, Senator Bob Graham (1999)19 filingsthrough 2018
Michael ParrishMonsanto Company19 filingsthrough 2013
Stephanie MurphyMonsanto CompanyCovered position: Director for Agricultural Affairs, Office of the, United States Trade Representative, (February 2009 - July 2014)18 filingsthrough 2018
Jonathan Raphael YarowskyWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GCHouse Jud. Com. 82-95; SAC Pres 95-9815 filingsthrough 2018
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce13 filingsthrough 2015
Stanley H AbramsonArentfox Schiff LLP13 filingsthrough 2013
Robert D. LehmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: CoS Portman 11-15; CoS OMB 06-07; CoS USTR 05-06; CoS Rep Portman 03-05; CoS Rep Combest 93-03; LD/LA Rep Combest; Lobby Spec. House Clerk 88-8912 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew BurchettMonsanto Company11 filingsthrough 2011
John HolsclawTch Group, LLCCovered position: Former Senate Floor Staff, Republican, Secretary's Office11 filingsthrough 2010
ROBERT ENOCH HOBART ivVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: DepCOS,Cong.Zach Wamp;LD,Cong.Rick Hill;LA,Cong.B.Vucanovich9 filingsthrough 2018
Rashid HallawayVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh9 filingsthrough 2018
Trista RoehlAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LA, Rep. Pat Toomey9 filingsthrough 2013
Benjamin E. QuayleVenture Government Strategies, LLC (Fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)Covered position: Former U.S. Congressman8 filingsthrough 2018
Melissa AgustinMonsanto CompanyCovered position: Director of Agricultural Affairs, Executive Office, of the President, Office of the U.S. Trade, Representative, Office of Agricultural Affairs, August 2007 - December 2011, Staff Assistant, Senator Larry Pressler (SD), May - August 1995, May 1996 - January 19978 filingsthrough 2013
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA and Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen7 filingsthrough 2017
Brian Arthur PomperParven Pomper Strategies, Inc.Covered position: Chief Int'l Trade Counsel, Sen. Finance6 filingsthrough 2010
Benjamin Craig NobleTroutman Strategies6 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 28 of 54 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
