Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Grocery MANUFACTURERS/FOOD Products Association
District of Columbia
18 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2014 · latest filed Jan 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$190K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$190K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Advertising
ADV
17 filings
$190K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
16 filings
$170K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
- H.R. 4173 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
- H.R. 2831 113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for marketing directed at children to promote the consumption of food of poor nutritional quality.3 filingsthrough 2014
- H.R. 6020 112th CongressFinancial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2013
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Kevin Curtin Law Offices of Kevin G. CurtinCovered position: Chief Counsel/Staff Director, Senate Commerce Committee19 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
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: grocery-manufacturers-food-products-association.