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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
35 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1781118th CongressA bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies.8 filingsthrough 2024
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.36 filingsthrough 2025
David HamillArentfox Schiff LLP
The filings
The 20 most recent of 106 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: pernod-ricard-usa-llc.
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.
TRD
20 filings
$780K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
10 filings
$900K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
10 filings
$900K 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.
117th Congress
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 2238116th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain tax benefits related to empowerment zones.5 filingsthrough 2020
S. 617116th CongressTax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 6854118th CongressHabitat Enhancement Now Act2 filingsthrough 2023
S. 5187118th CongressCommunity College Infrastructure Financing Act2 filingsthrough 2023
S. 952119th CongressA bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies.1 filingthrough 2026
H.R. 1175116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
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.
21 filingsthrough 2023
Rebecca BennBallard PartnersCovered position: LA to Sen. Cochran, Senate Committee on Appropriations.16 filingsthrough 2021
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 97-98 LA to Rep. Xavier Becerra; 98-01 Tax Counsel to Rep. Robert Matsui8 filingsthrough 2023
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 97-99 Chief Tax Counsel, SFC-Dem Staff5 filingsthrough 2018
Philip EnglishArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative3 filingsthrough 2018
Robert J SchellhasErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)2 filingsthrough 2025
David HankeArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: PSM, SSCI (2017-2019); Counsel, Senate Maj. Whip (2015-2017); Counsel, Senate Min. Whip (2013-2014); Counsel, Sen. Cornyn (2007-2012); LA, Rep. Fortenberry (2007); Fellow, HIRC (2003); Law Clerk, House Ways & Means (2001); Staff Asst., CHA (2000)1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 6 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
