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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
36 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
33 filings
$1M on those filings
Defense
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3146118th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the cover over of certain distilled spirits taxes.7 filingsthrough 2024
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Mike KellyR-Pennsylvania-AL
Bills: H.R. 1414, H.R. 1990, H.R. 2673 +6 more
368 filings
2 lobbyists
Stacey E. PlaskettD-Virgin Islands-AL
Bills: H.R. 1378, H.R. 2673, H.R. 3146 +1 more
191 filings
2 lobbyists
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Gregory NickersonThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Tax Counsel Committee on Ways and Means; Staff Director Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee38 filingsthrough 2026
Brian DiffellThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Pol. Adv. Sen. Rep. Conf; Leg. Dir. Sen. Blunt; Leg. Dir. Rep. Blunt; Sr. Pol. Adv. Maj. Whip; Sr. Pol. Adv. House Maj Whip; Research Analyst, House Maj Whip: Spec. Asst. to the Chief Dep. Whip32 filingsthrough 2023
Zachary Austin PriceThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Staff assistant to Senator Coats.19 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 39 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: suntory-global-spirits-formerly-beam-suntory-inc.
DEF
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$30K 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.
118th Congress
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the cover over of certain distilled spirits taxes.
7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1175116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
S. 362116th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
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.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 747115th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2017
S. 236115th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1378119th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the temporary increase in limitation on the cover over of distilled spirits taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 3301116th CongressTaxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
S. 617116th CongressTax Extender and Disaster Relief Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1986119th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the temporary increase in limitation on the cover over of distilled spirits taxes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.2 filingsthrough 2025
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.
Tim BurchettR-Tennessee-AL
Bills: H.R. 2673, H.R. 3028, H.R. 4073
186 filings
2 lobbyists
Lisa C. McClainR-Michigan-AL
Bills: H.R. 1378, H.R. 2673
176 filings
2 lobbyists
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Kelli Briggs
The Washington Tax & Public Policy Group
Covered position: Chief of Staff, 12th Congressional District of Ohio; Chief of Staff, D.C. Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern for Rep. Tiberi
15 filingsthrough 2021
Jan FowlerThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Leg. Asst, Sen. Voinovich; Leg. Assistant, Leg. Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Intern from Rep. McCrery10 filingsthrough 2019
James Max PedrottiThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Carol Miller5 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
