1st Quarter - Report

NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION for NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$72,000
Expense method
A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

10 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Support for the 199A co-op tax fix in the FY18 Omnibus Appropriations Bill

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
DANIELLE BECK —
COLIN WOODALL —

Contacted: Interior, Dept of (DOI); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Natural Resources NAT

Supporting HR 424 - to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue final rules relating to listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes. Supporting S 33 - the Improved National Monument Designation Process Act Supporting S 565 - the Judgement Fund Transparency Act Supporting HR 3990 - the National Monument Creation and Protection Act

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
ETHAN LANE —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Interior, Dept of (DOI); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); SENATE; Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Bills named: H.R. 3990 (115th), H.R. 424 (115th)

Environment/Superfund ENV

Supporting HR 848 - The Farm Regulatory Certainty Act to keep agriculture out of RCRA regulation.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
MARY-THOMAS HART New —
SCOTT YAGER —

Contacted: Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Interior, Dept of (DOI); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 848 (115th)

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

Working to support a bi-lateral trade agreement with Japan. Working to protect the beef and cattle trade provisions in NAFTA. Working to protect KORUS

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
THOMAS KENT BACUS —
COLIN WOODALL —

Contacted: Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Interior, Dept of (DOI); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Agriculture AGR

Working on development of 2018 Farm Bill in both House (HR 2) and Senate. Asking for establishment of a Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine bank. Supporting the conservation and research titles of the bill. Supporting the livestock disaster provisions. Working to prevent the inclusion of a Livestock Title. Pushing for the nomination and confirmation of commissioners to fill the CFTC. Pushing for the nomination and confirmation of USDA officials.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
DANIELLE BECK —
SARAH CALHOUN —
ALLISON MICHELLE RIVERA —
COLIN WOODALL —

Contacted: Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Interior, Dept of (DOI); Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Bills named: H.R. 2 (115th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Supporting language in the FY18 House Agriculture Appropriations Bill to address the need for more funding for Foot and Mouth Disease vaccines and preparedness, and supporting the Market Access Program and Foreign Market Development Program. Supporting language in the FY18 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bill to get a one year delay on implementation of the electronic logging devices. Supporting language in the FY18 Interior Bill to prevent feedlots from having to report greenhouse gases, prohibiting funds to work on the sage grouse, allowing for the transfer of horses and burros off of Federal lands, and defunding any work on wolves. Supporting language in the FY18 Energy and Water Bill to expedite the repeal of the WOTUS rule. Overall support of HR 1625 - FY18 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
DANIELLE BECK —
SARAH CALHOUN —
MARY-THOMAS HART New —
ETHAN LANE —
ALLISON MICHELLE RIVERA —
COLIN WOODALL —
SCOTT YAGER —

Contacted: Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); SENATE; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Bills named: H.R. 1625 (115th)

Transportation TRA

Working to exempt livestock haulers from the Electronic Logging Device implementation.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
ALLISON MICHELLE RIVERA —

Contacted: Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); SENATE; Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Immigration IMM

Support for the Agricultural Guestworker Act considered in the House Judiciary Committee. Supportive of continued work on an ag guestworker bill.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
ALLISON MICHELLE RIVERA —
COLIN WOODALL —

Contacted: Interior, Dept of (DOI); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); SENATE; Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.) FOO

Working to have FDA enforce beef standards of identity on vegetable-based alternative protein products. Working to have FSIS regulate cultured or lab grown alternative protein products and to restrict their use of the term beef.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
DANIELLE BECK —

Contacted: SENATE; Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Interior, Dept of (DOI); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

Support the FARM Act S 2421 and ACRE Act HR 5275 to exempt agriculture from the CERCLA air emission reporting requirements. Support language in the FY18 Omnibus Appropriations Act to exempt agriculture from the CERCLA air emission reporting requirements.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
DANIELLE BECK —
MARY-THOMAS HART New —
ETHAN LANE —
ALLISON MICHELLE RIVERA —
COLIN WOODALL —
SCOTT YAGER —

Contacted: Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Bills named: H.R. 5275 (115th)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.