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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Advertising
ADV
68 filings
$79M on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
68 filings
$79M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 230 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1425117th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on the cover over of distilled spirits taxes to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.9 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 793117th CongressRESTAURANTS Act of 20219 filingsthrough 2022
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: distilled-spirits-council-of-the-u-s-inc.
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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.
68 filings
$79M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
68 filings
$79M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
47 filings
$51.9M on those filings
Postal
POS
46 filings
$56.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
32 filings
$32M on those filings
Defense
DEF
25 filings
$27.1M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
17 filings
$23.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
8 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Constitution
CON
7 filings
$9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
4 filings
$4.9M 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.
H.R. 185115th CongressTerritorial Economic Growth and Recovery Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 747115th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
S. 236115th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
S. 429115th CongressAGED Spirits Act9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1346117th CongressHospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3287117th CongressUnited States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3807117th CongressRelief for Restaurants and other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act of 20228 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1663117th CongressUnited States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2091117th CongressRestaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 477117th CongressHospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1175116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Jessica BradyDistilled Spirits Council of the U.S., Inc.Covered position: Deputy Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ben Nelson (3/12-5/12); Staff Assistant, Sen. Ben Nelson (4/11-3/12)
19 filingsthrough 2023
Denzel McguireDistilled Spirits Council of the U.S., Inc.Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Mitch McConnell (6/10-12/14); Deputy Chief of Staff/Policy Director, Sen. Jon Kyl (3/9-6/10); Staff Director, U.S. Senate Budget Committee (2/06-2/09); Chief of Staff/Legislative Director, Sen. Judd Gregg (1/05-2/09)14 filingsthrough 2026
Jack ThompsonDistilled Spirits Council of the U.S., Inc.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director for Rep. Vance McAllister (2013 - 2015); Legislative Director (2007-2013), Legislative Assistant (2005-2006) & Legislative Correspondent (2004-2005) for Rep. Rodney Alexander9 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
