87 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2025 · latest filed Jun 10, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$6.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$6.5M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Tobacco
TOB
87 filings
$6.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
75 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Government Issues
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 625110th CongressFamily Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act7 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2112th CongressRepealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Norman BrownsteinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP68 filingsthrough 2025
Michael B LevyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP40 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew LittmanBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Dir, Sen Barbara Boxer; Chief of Staff, Sen Al Franken; Sr Counselor, HHS Sec Sylvia Matthews Burwell25 filingsthrough 2025
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: vector-group-ltd.
Vector Group Ltd — lobbying record — Receipts Report
$930K
fees reported
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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.
GOV
6 filings
$450K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
2 filings
$160K 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.
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3963110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1256111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 982111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3584110th CongressSCHIP Extension Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 976110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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: Intern - Congressman Frank Wolf
16 filingsthrough 2017
Alfred MotturBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP11 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen MchaleSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Acting General Counsel, Treasury, Jan-Jun 20018 filingsthrough 2013
Richard MayBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Brian Thomas McguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief Speechwriter, HUD; Chief Speechwriter, Sen Mitch McConnell; Deputy Comm Dir, Sen Mitch McConnell; Acting Staff Dir, Republican Comm Center, Sen Mitch McConnell; Chief of Staff, Sen Mitch McConnell3 filingsthrough 2018
Makan DelahimBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Deputy Asst AG Antitrust Div DOJ, Chf Counsel & Staff Dir Senate Judiciary Comm, Counsel Senate Judiciary Comm3 filingsthrough 2016
Stuart Michael PapeSquire Patton Boggs3 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 7 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
