138 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 5, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$5.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$3.6M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.8M
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.
David Duane RansomMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: 2007-08: Sr Communications and Policy Advisor, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer; 2002-06: Communications Director, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; 1999-2001: Communications Director, House Committee on Administration (Steny Hoyer, Ranking Member)58 filingsthrough 2023
Robert David PeaseBrewers AssociationCovered position: COO53 filingsthrough 2024
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: brewers-association.
$210K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
AGR
13 filings
$130K on those filings
Postal
POS
10 filings
$130K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
8 filings
$80K 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.
113th Congress
Small BREW Act
16 filingsthrough 2014
S. 917113th CongressSmall Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce Act of 201314 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1663117th CongressUnited States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act13 filingsthrough 2022
S. 236115th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 201713 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2903114th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2016
S. 534112th CongressBrewer's Employment and Excise Relief Act of 201113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1175116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
S. 362116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.11 filingsthrough 2018
S. 375114th CongressSmall BREW Act9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2238114th CongressCraft Beverage Bond Simplification Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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.
32 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew BormetBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Ass't, Sen. Ron Wyden; Leg. Ass't, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen26 filingsthrough 2022
Luke StrimerBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Staff Assistant, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall17 filingsthrough 2022
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff & Leg. Director, US Rep. Gus Bilirakis; Prof. Staff, House Cmte. on Education & the Workforce15 filingsthrough 2020
Brett ThompsonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. J. Talent13 filingsthrough 2019
Arthur J DecelleMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: House Ways and Means Committee12 filingsthrough 2013
Robin J BowenMcdermott Will & Schulte LLPCovered position: Senator Mitch McConnell8 filingsthrough 2010
Alex MaggosBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff for Senator Mark Kirk6 filingsthrough 2018
