Houchens Industries Inc — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Houchens Industries Inc
Kentucky
37 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2017 · latest filed Jan 17, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.6M
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
35 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
25 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1249113th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 273113th CongressA bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.8 filingsthrough 2014
JAMES HAWKINS iiiAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senate HELP Committee35 filingsthrough 2017
BOB R BROOKS jrAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey33 filingsthrough 2017
Lauren BazelAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Senior Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. John Kerry; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. William Cowan16 filingsthrough 2017
JOSEPH MICHAEL HOGAN jrAlpine Group Partners, LLC.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 37 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: houchens-industries-inc.
FOO
17 filings
$740K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Banking
BAN
8 filings
$400K 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.
113th Congress
To modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.
7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2382111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1232112th CongressA bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3970110th CongressTax Reduction and Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 575112th CongressDebit Interchange Fee Study Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5813114th CongressOvertime Reform and Enhancement Act2 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6094114th CongressRegulatory Relief for Small Businesses, Schools, and Nonprofits Act2 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2017114th CongressCommon Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Ben Nelson
7 filingsthrough 2017
Jason SchendleAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Mary Landrieu7 filingsthrough 2014
Charles BarnettAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Blanche Lincoln6 filingsthrough 2013
Rebecca HawesAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Legislative Counsel, Sen. John Breaux (D-LA)2 filingsthrough 2009
Kathleen YoungbloodAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Scheduler, Senator Kit Bond (R-MO)1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
