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.
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: beer-institute.
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.
BUD
37 filings
$12.3M on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
26 filings
$11.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
23 filings
$11M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$11.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$7.9M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
11 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$6.4M 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.
116th Congress
Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2019
16 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1918113th CongressBrewers Excise and Economic Relief Act of 201316 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Jonathan Raphael YarowskyWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GCHouseJudCom82-95; SACPres95-98
42 filingsthrough 2023
JAMES ALOYSIUS MCGREEVY iiiBeer Institute36 filingsthrough 2022
Robert D. LehmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: CoS Portman 11-15; CoS OMB 06-07; CoS USTR 05-06;CoS Rep Portman 03-05; CoS Rep Combest 93-03; LD/LARep Combest; Lobby Spec. House Clerk 88-8933 filingsthrough 2023
William Robert YoungBeer Institute28 filingsthrough 2026
Michael J HeatonBeer Institute27 filingsthrough 2021
Christopher ThorneBeer Institute18 filingsthrough 2015
Brian CrawfordBeer Institute15 filingsthrough 2026
Anne StarkeBeer Institute15 filingsthrough 2025
John SandellCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Tax Counsel, Legislative Assistant; Ways and Means Committee (Camp, Ryan, Brady)13 filingsthrough 2026
Michael GoodmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff House Member Office (Kind), Legislative Staff House Member Office (Braley, Barrow)13 filingsthrough 2026
Timothy MartinWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GC/Senior LA Rep. Tipton (14-15); LD Rep. Davis (15-17)12 filingsthrough 2019
Jonathan YarowskySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: GCHouseJudCom82-95; SACPres95-9812 filingsthrough 2013
Neil PottsSquire Patton Boggs12 filingsthrough 2013
Joseph Scott McclainBeer Institute12 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth TobinBeer Institute12 filingsthrough 2012
Benjamin StaubRadius Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff, House Judiciary Committee11 filingsthrough 2026
David RossWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: InterTrade Counsel, Sen. Fin. Com; Associate GC, USTR11 filingsthrough 2021
Neil PottsWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP11 filingsthrough 2016
Richard GoddardBeer Institute11 filingsthrough 2011
Todd WebsterCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Communications Senate Member Office (Murray, Daschle), Chief of Staff Senate Member Office (Coons)10 filingsthrough 2026
Christina M HartmanBeer Institute10 filingsthrough 2015
Travis GibbonsBeer Institute9 filingsthrough 2019
Brian SkretnyWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: Senior Professional Staff HFAC 2014-2021; LD Rep. Engel2014-2021; LD/Counsel Rep. Engel 2007-20127 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey BeckerBeer Institute5 filingsthrough 2009
John A DeviernoMr. John a. Devierno3 filingsthrough 2017
Christopher MacarthurBeer Institute2 filingsthrough 2026
Jonathan BlumWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: Sen. Young (2021) Economic Policy Advisor; Treasury (2018-2021) DAS; HFSC (2014-2018) Senior Policy Advisor/Senior Professional Staff/Professional Staff; Sen. Heller (2011-2014) LC2 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 17 of 38 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
