Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Cbe Group
Iowa
11 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2009 · latest filed Jul 13, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$485K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$260K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$225K
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.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$485K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- EARL RAY BEEMAN iii Venable LLPCovered position: Legislation Counsel, Joint Committee on Taxation5 filingsthrough 2009
- ROBERT L SMITH ii Venable LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, U.S. Rep. Wes Watkins5 filingsthrough 2009
- Michael J Ferrell Venable LLP5 filingsthrough 2009
- Randall Kamm The Cbe GroupCovered position: Vice President5 filingsthrough 2009
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: cbe-group.