22 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2020 · latest filed Jan 29, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$650K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$650K
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
21 filings
$650K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$460K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2021115th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on the cover over of distilled spirits taxes to Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands.2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 747115th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
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: heaven-hill-brands.
TRD
9 filings
$270K on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$20K 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.
114th Congress
Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2015
S. 1562114th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20151 filingthrough 2016
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.
through 2020
Charles BlackPrime Policy Group5 filingsthrough 2018
Keith SmithPrime Policy Group5 filingsthrough 2017
Casie Elizabeth DaughertyPrime Policy Group3 filingsthrough 2020
Edward CoxPrime Policy Group3 filingsthrough 2018
Stefan BaileyPrime Policy Group2 filingsthrough 2017
Jacob Donald BeaverPrime Policy Group2 filingsthrough 2017
