Food Marketing Institute — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Food Marketing Institute
Virginia
72 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 13, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$481K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$481K
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.
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)8 filingsthrough 2014
Heather MeadeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)8 filingsthrough 2014
Sarah Kuehl EggeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 11 Dep Staff Dir, Joint Select Cmte on Def Red7 filingsthrough 2014
Samuel OlchykVenable LLPCovered position: Legislation Counsel, Joint Committee on Taxation7 filingsthrough 2009
The filings
The 20 most recent of 72 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: food-marketing-institute.
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.
TAX
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$261K on those filings
Retirement
RET
1 filing
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
Pension Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2008
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2575113th CongressSave American Workers Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 7327110th CongressWorker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
Kenneth R HoffmanVenable LLP
7 filingsthrough 2009
W Stephen CannonConstantine Cannon, LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Stephen S AndersonConstantine Cannon, LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Joseph H GibsonConstantine Cannon, LLPCovered position: 2005-2007; Chief Min. Counsel, H Jud Cmte, 2007-20086 filingsthrough 2009
Walter SandersVan Fleet Associates5 filingsthrough 2013
Daniel EsquibelErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2013
