Aramark Corporation — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Aramark Corporation
Pennsylvania
24 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Jan 9, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$550K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$550K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$550K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
9 filings
$520K on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3590114th CongressHalt Tax Increases on the Middle Class and Seniors Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3590115th CongressEnvironmental Justice and Civil Rights Restoration and Enforcement Act2 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Thomas CrawfordFti Government Affairs10 filingsthrough 2017
Cathy KochErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Tax Chief, Senate Finance Committee (2007-2010); Chief Advisor Tax and Economics to Sen. Reid (2012-2015)3 filingsthrough 2018
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Press Secretary/Deputy Director Communications SFC (1999-2001); Public Affairs Specialist, Treasury (2001-2004); Communications Director Presidents Advisory on Fed Tax Reform (2005)2 filingsthrough 2017
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young) Legislative Assistant, Office of Sen. Orrin Hatch (1993-1998); Staff Dir. Senate Committee on Small Business (2003-2006)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2019
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: aramark-corporation.
$30K
fees reported
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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.
HCR
9 filings
$520K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$520K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
9 filings
$520K 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.
