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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
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: brown-forman-corporation.
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.
CSP
63 filings
$16.2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
59 filings
$15.8M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
49 filings
$975K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
46 filings
$11.6M on those filings
Constitution
CON
44 filings
$11.4M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
39 filings
$360K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
36 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
34 filings
$8.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
30 filings
$8.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
27 filings
$8.1M 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.
118th Congress
A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies.
11 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 644116th CongressNavajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Act of 20208 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 644115th CongressConscience Protection Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2405119th CongressThe White Oak Resilience Act6 filingsthrough 2026
S. 476119th CongressWhite Oak Resiliency Act of 20256 filingsthrough 2026
S. 952119th CongressA bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5582118th CongressWhite Oak Resilience Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4121119th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20265 filingsthrough 2026
S. 2256119th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20265 filingsthrough 2026
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 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1562114th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5034111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Erik PaulsenR-Minnesota-AL
Bills: H.R. 644
2 filings
1 lobbyist
Patrick J. TiberiR-Ohio-AL
Bills: H.R. 644
2 filings
1 lobbyist
Ryan A. CostelloR-Pennsylvania-AL
Bills: H.R. 644
2 filings
1 lobbyist
Aaron SchockR-Illinois-AL
Bills: H.R. 644
1 filing
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
through 2019
Benjamin R HowardThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Deputy Asst POTUS WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Deputy Dir.WH Leg.Afrs12/18-2/20 Dir Floor Ops,US House1/18-12/18 Special Asst,POTUS WH Leg.Affairs1/17-12/17 Floor Asst,US House1/11-8/14 Staff Asst,House Rep.Conf2/09-12/10 Staff Asst WH Leg Afrs6/08-1/0918 filingsthrough 2026
Katherine Winkler KeatingThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Joseph Crowley, House Democratic Caucus (5/2007-12/2018) Staffer, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee (1/2005-4/2007) Legislative Director to Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Ways and Means Committee (9/99-12/0416 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth KelleyThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: WH:Obama:Natl EcnmcCncl:SpecAsstPresident&CofS;WH:Obama:Exec Ofc of President; TRD Rep:Asst US TRD Rep for Private Sector Engagement,Sen John Walsh CofS Sen Max Baucus:Deputy CofS/Political Dir Rep.Earl Blumenauer:Exec Asst&Deputy Press Sec15 filingsthrough 2026
James Howard PerryBrown-Forman Corporation15 filingsthrough 2024
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: US Senate-Assistant Secretary for the Majority; US Senate-Secretary for the Majority/Secretary for the Minority14 filingsthrough 2026
Sam ScalesBrown-Forman CorporationCovered position: Deputy Assistant, U.S. Trade Representative9 filingsthrough 2022
Les FugateBrown-Forman Corporation9 filingsthrough 2022
Lauren O'BrienRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff-Legislative Director, Rep. Geoff Davis ; ; Legislative Director, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis ; ; Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis ; ; Staff Assistant, Office of Rep. Geoff Davis ; ; Intern, Office of Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner9 filingsthrough 2016
Lesley ElliottC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Senate9 filingsthrough 2010
Michael HansonC2 Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrC2 Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
Jim O'MalleyBrown-Forman Corporation8 filingsthrough 2020
Gordon Hunter Hunter BatesRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell ; ; Legal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnell ; ; Chief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee8 filingsthrough 2016
William David RubinRubin, Turnbull & Associates6 filingsthrough 2026
Brian GriffinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Senior Leadership Advisor for Senator Byron Dorgan (Democratic Policy Committee Chairman) (end 12/036 filingsthrough 2024
Richard MojicaMiller & Chevalier, Chtd5 filingsthrough 2020
MARK H SMITH esqBrown-Forman Corporation5 filingsthrough 2009
Michael BurleyRubin, Turnbull & AssociatesCovered position: Regional Administrator, White House Liaison, Deputy White House Liaison at U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development; Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel at White House EOP4 filingsthrough 2026
