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MARS, INCORPORATED

Lobbying for MARS, INCORPORATED

 Filing 1st Quarter - Amendment
Reporting period
1st Quarter 2025
Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted May 22, 2025
Expenses
$370,000.00
What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.
Client based in
Virginia

Official filing document

 Government bodies contacted 10
  • Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
  • Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  • Intl Trade Administration (ITA)
  • Labor, Dept of (DOL)
  • Natl Economic Council (NEC)
  • Natl Security Council (NSC)
  • SENATE
  • U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

 Bills named in this filing 2
 Lobbying activity 6
Agriculture

Support for climate and conservation issues in the Farm Bill; support for regenerative farming systems and support for reforms aimed at increasing the domestic supply of sugar; support for maintaining FDA funding for pet food ingredient approvals; support for maintaining FDA funding for animal health and pet food safety; support for FDA guidance on H5N1 food safety plans for pet food.

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Support for exclusion of agriculture commodities that cannot be sourced domestically from tariff programs; support for Generalized System of Preferences (GSP); support for African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA); support for public comment process on new tariff policies; Support for U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) role in addressing challenges in global agriculture supply chains.

Environment/Superfund

Support for policies that improve U.S. recycling infrastructure including S. 351, The Steward Act; engaged on food ingredients for transportation fuels; support for UN Plastics Treaty.

Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)

Support for Pet Food Uniform Regulatory Reform Act (H.R. 7380), which shifts authority for pet food labeling regulation from states to the federal government (whole bill); support for finalizing FDAs healthy claim final rule; support for advancing FDA's efforts to propose front-of- package nutrition labeling; support for FDA food safety oversight activities and increases in funding for to enhance FDA food ingredient reassessment activities; engaged on FDA proposal to create new processes for reassessing human food ingredients; support for FDA sodium reduction initiatives.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Support for maintaining corporate income tax rates and policies that support capital investment in the U.S.

Health Issues

Support for inclusion of oral health in Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.

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