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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
69 filings
$15.7M 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 money 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.
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Robbie Scott Minnich82 filings1 client · through 2026
William Harrison Ashley82 filings1 client · through 2026
Gary M Adams81 filings1 client · through 2026
Robert Craig Brown59 filings1 client · through 2020
SIDNEY A JOHNSON jr54 filings1 client · through 2019
Jody Lynn Campiche44 filings1 client · through 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: national-cotton-council.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $15.7M in expenses.
Steven Hensley40 filings1 client · through 2026
Mark D Lange37 filings1 client · through 2015
John Maguire36 filings1 client · through 2014
E Keith MencheyCovered position: Biological Scientist, USDA33 filings1 client · through 2014
THOMAS R. LANGLEY iv29 filings1 client · through 2022
Matthew Valesko16 filings1 client · through 2018
Christine M BirdsongCovered position: Asst. Counsel, House Committee on Agriculture16 filings1 client · through 2015
Jeffrey Kuckuck14 filings1 client · through 2026
William Frierson11 filings1 client · through 2021
Bill M Norman11 filings1 client · through 2010
Aubrey Fowler8 filings1 client · through 2024
Abigail Huie6 filings1 client · through 2026
William A GillonCovered position: Counsel, Senate Committee on Agriculture1 filing1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
