| Rank |
District |
Total Tobacco Transition Payments
1995-2011 | Pct of
Total | Running
Percentage |
| 1 | 1st District of North Carolina (Rep. G. K. Butterfield) | $72,293,866 | 9.0% | 9.0% |
| 2 | 3rd District of North Carolina (Rep. Walter B. Jones) | $64,740,833 | 8.1% | 17.1% |
| 3 | 2nd District of North Carolina (Rep. Renee L. Ellmers) | $63,574,049 | 8.0% | 25.1% |
| 4 | 7th District of North Carolina (Rep. Mike McIntyre) | $55,696,283 | 7.0% | 32.1% |
| 5 | 5th District of Virginia (Rep. Robert Hurt) | $45,178,788 | 5.7% | 37.7% |
| 6 | 1st District of Kentucky (Rep. Ed Whitfield) | $41,441,254 | 5.2% | 42.9% |
| 7 | 6th District of Kentucky (Rep. Garland Barr) | $41,361,314 | 5.2% | 48.1% |
| 8 | 4th District of Kentucky (Rep. Thomas Massie) | $39,723,871 | 5.0% | 53.0% |
| 9 | 2nd District of Kentucky (Rep. Brett Guthrie) | $38,480,665 | 4.8% | 57.9% |
| 10 | 6th District of South Carolina (Rep. James E. Clyburn) | $35,163,501 | 4.4% | 62.3% |
| 11 | 13th District of North Carolina (Rep. Brad Miller) | $34,706,450 | 4.3% | 66.6% |
| 12 | 5th District of North Carolina (Rep. Virginia Foxx) | $29,507,715 | 3.7% | 70.3% |
| 13 | 1st District of Georgia (Rep. Jack Kingston) | $24,655,968 | 3.1% | 73.4% |
| 14 | 6th District of Tennessee (Rep. Diane Black) | $20,479,272 | 2.6% | 75.9% |
| 15 | 1st District of South Carolina (Rep. Tim Scott) | $19,348,724 | 2.4% | 78.4% |
| 16 | 2nd District of Georgia (Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.) | $13,343,535 | 1.7% | 80.0% |
| 17 | 5th District of Kentucky (Rep. Harold Rogers) | $12,561,039 | 1.6% | 81.6% |
| 18 | 5th District of South Carolina (Rep. Mick Mulvaney) | $12,459,361 | 1.6% | 83.2% |
| 19 | 6th District of North Carolina (Rep. Howard Coble) | $10,653,214 | 1.3% | 84.5% |
| 20 | 4th District of North Carolina (Rep. David E. Price) | $10,135,083 | 1.3% | 85.8% |
| 21 | 9th District of Virginia (Rep. H. Morgan Griffith) | $9,569,744 | 1.2% | 87.0% |
| 22 | 1st District of Tennessee (Rep. David P. Roe) | $8,988,055 | 1.1% | 88.1% |
| 23 | 3rd District of Georgia (Rep. Lynn A. Westmoreland) | $8,004,805 | 1.0% | 89.1% |
| 24 | 4th District of Virginia (Rep. J. Randy Forbes) | $7,331,055 | 0.9% | 90.0% |
| 25 | 11th District of North Carolina (Rep. Heath Shuler) | $5,902,027 | 0.7% | 90.7% |
| 26 | 8th District of Tennessee (Rep. Stephen Lee Fincher) | $5,745,322 | 0.7% | 91.5% |
| 27 | 2nd District of Ohio (Rep. Jean Schmidt) | $5,720,213 | 0.7% | 92.2% |
| 28 | 8th District of North Carolina (Rep. Larry Kissell) | $5,557,144 | 0.7% | 92.9% |
| 29 | 9th District of Indiana (Rep. Todd C. Young) | $5,406,078 | 0.7% | 93.5% |
| 30 | 2nd District of Florida (Rep. Steve, II Southerland) | $3,821,843 | 0.5% | 94.0% |
| 31 | 3rd District of Tennessee (Rep. Charles J. Fleischmann) | $3,492,716 | 0.4% | 94.5% |
| 32 | 7th District of Tennessee (Rep. Marsha Blackburn) | $3,049,932 | 0.4% | 94.8% |
| 33 | 4th District of Florida (Rep. Ander Crenshaw) | $3,035,574 | 0.4% | 95.2% |
| 34 | 2nd District of Wisconsin (Rep. Tammy Baldwin) | $2,948,065 | 0.4% | 95.6% |
| 35 | 6th District of Missouri (Rep. Sam Graves) | $2,748,892 | 0.3% | 95.9% |
| 36 | 4th District of Tennessee (Rep. Scott DesJarlais) | $2,442,755 | 0.3% | 96.2% |
| 37 | 12th District of Georgia (Rep. John Barrow) | $2,244,780 | 0.3% | 96.5% |
| 38 | 6th District of Florida (Rep. Ron DeSantis) | $1,923,955 | 0.2% | 96.8% |
| 39 | 2nd District of Tennessee (Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr.) | $1,610,867 | 0.2% | 97.0% |
| 40 | 12th District of North Carolina (Rep. Melvin L. Watt) | $1,565,070 | 0.2% | 97.2% |
| 41 | 6th District of Ohio (Rep. Bill Johnson) | $1,192,946 | 0.1% | 97.3% |
| 42 | 3rd District of West Virginia (Rep. Nick J., II Rahall) | $1,050,853 | 0.1% | 97.4% |
| 43 | 5th District of Tennessee (Rep. Jim Cooper) | $947,697 | 0.1% | 97.6% |
| 44 | 10th District of North Carolina (Rep. Patrick T. McHenry) | $891,173 | 0.1% | 97.7% |
| 45 | 2nd District of West Virginia (Rep. Shelley Moore Capito) | $853,403 | 0.1% | 97.8% |
| 46 | 3rd District of Wisconsin (Rep. Ron Kind) | $595,493 | 0.1% | 97.9% |
| 47 | 2nd District of Alabama (Rep. Martha Roby) | $574,158 | 0.1% | 97.9% |
| 48 | 3rd District of Ohio (Rep. Michael R. Turner) | $478,742 | 0.1% | 98.0% |
| 49 | 6th District of Indiana (Rep. Luke Messer) | $348,173 | 0.0% | 98.0% |
| 50 | 18th District of Ohio (Rep. Bob Gibbs) | $92,005 | 0.0% | 98.0% |
| 51 | 3rd District of Kentucky (Rep. John A. Yarmuth) | $86,035 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 52 | 8th District of Indiana (Rep. Larry Bucshon) | $73,452 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 53 | 5th District of Florida (Rep. Corrine Brown) | $59,800 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 54 | 4th District of South Carolina (Rep. Trey Gowdy) | $55,773 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 55 | 7th District of Virginia (Rep. Eric Cantor) | $53,217 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 56 | 6th District of Virginia (Rep. Bob Goodlatte) | $33,017 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 57 | 4th District of Missouri (Rep. Vicky Hartzler) | $30,303 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 58 | 9th District of Missouri (Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer) | $30,258 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 59 | 9th District of Georgia (Rep. Doug Collins) | $24,096 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 60 | 2nd District of Kansas (Rep. Lynn Jenkins) | $22,803 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 61 | 1st District of West Virginia (Rep. David B. McKinley) | $19,790 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 62 | 1st District of Virginia (Rep. Robert J. Wittman) | $17,468 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 63 | 5th District of Indiana (Rep. Susan W. Brooks) | $17,457 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 64 | 4th District of Indiana (Rep. Todd Rokita) | $16,837 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 65 | 2nd District of South Carolina (Rep. Joe Wilson) | $12,338 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 66 | 1st District of Wisconsin (Rep. Paul Ryan) | $9,115 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 67 | 6th District of Wisconsin (Rep. Thomas E. Petri) | $5,604 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 68 | 10th District of Georgia (Rep. Paul C. Broun) | $2,905 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 69 | 5th District of Missouri (Rep. Emanuel Cleaver) | $2,261 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 70 | 7th District of Ohio (Rep. Steve Austria) | $1,948 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 71 | 2nd District of Oklahoma (Rep. Dan Boren) | $1,029 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 72 | 9th District of North Carolina (Rep. Sue Wilkins Myrick) | $918 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
| 73 | 8th District of Wisconsin (Rep. Reid J. Ribble) | $169 | 0.0% | 98.1% |
Source: Environmental Working Group. Compiled from USDA data.
Note: The information on conservation spending for 2011 is incomplete due to missing data from USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service. In addition some payments made in 2010 were not assigned to recipients in the data received from NRCS. Those payments are also not included.
The information provided for the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) provides an inaccurate picture of how WRP payments are distributed. USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service uses title companies as intermediaries to finalize wetlands easements under the Wetlands Reserve Program. As a result, the data provided to us shows large sums of money going to these title companies. In reality, the payments are ultimately distributed to landowners participating in the WRP.
Unfortunately, NRCS has not provided the data to show where these farms and wetlands are located or which farmers or landowners are enrolling in the program, so EWG is unable to allocate these large sums of money to individuals beyond the title companies. Therefore, these companies skew the conservation rankings and payment concentration, which EWG cannot avoid unless and until NRCS makes available the additional farm attribution data. Therefore, we have not included WRP payments in the 2011 data update.
We have separated data on farm commodity, disaster and conservation payments in order to provide a more accurate picture of top recipients and concentration of payments among the three main categories of USDA programs.
Finally, EWG works hard to ensure the accuracy of the information it provides through its products and services, but obtains data for the Farm Subsidy Database from the U.S. Department of Agriculture pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. Therefore, EWG cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information USDA provides or any analysis based thereon. If you find an error or discrepancy on the site, please contact your local USDA Farm Service Agency office to check its records before contacting EWG.
