Commonwealth Brands Inc — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Commonwealth Brands Inc
Kentucky
38 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Oct 13, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$1.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$736K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
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.
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: commonwealth-brands-inc.
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.
HOM
5 filings
$346K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
5 filings
$346K 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.
110th Congress
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
10 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1256111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1639112th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1461112th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1256112th CongressMedicare Physician Payment Transparency and Assessment Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 3162111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 275111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
