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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
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: wine-and-spirits-wholesalers-of-america-inc.
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.
POS
82 filings
$18.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
73 filings
$19.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
56 filings
$9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
25 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
22 filings
$5M on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
12 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
11 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
10 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Accounting
ACC
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
7 filings
$1.9M 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. 3011116th CongressEnd Drunk Driving Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1149116th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 215116th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2598118th CongressPREPARE Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
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.
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.
Cody TuckerWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc31 filingsthrough 2025
James A RowlandWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc30 filingsthrough 2016
Heather MchughCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Chuck Schumer22 filingsthrough 2018
Dwayne CarsonWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc15 filingsthrough 2025
Daniel JarrellWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc13 filingsthrough 2025
JACK S DEUSER jrThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning13 filingsthrough 2019
Stephen RebillotWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, IncCovered position: Representative Johnny Isakson; Senator Saxby Chambliss12 filingsthrough 2020
Paul S BockCapitol Hill Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Kohl12 filingsthrough 2013
Robert HickmottThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Counselor to the Secretary, HUD; Assoc. Admin. for Cong. and Leg. Affairs, EPA11 filingsthrough 2019
Summer MersingerThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: DC Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; S Policy Adv, Senate Commerce Committee; Dep Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; Gen Couns, Sen John Thune; Exec Dir, Sen John Thune; Confidential Assist, OPIC; Exec Assist, Rep John Thune; Staff Assist, Rep John Thune11 filingsthrough 2019
Ashley LantzWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc11 filingsthrough 2018
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner7 filingsthrough 2018
James C FreeThe Smith-Free Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2018
Karin MooreWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc5 filingsthrough 2012
Kenneth J KiesFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation5 filingsthrough 2009
Ben CastagnettiWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc3 filingsthrough 2026
Kelsey SnyderWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc2 filingsthrough 2026
Scott LuginbillWine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc2 filingsthrough 2026
Pat RaffanielloFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster2 filingsthrough 2008
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2018
Matt DolanFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senator David Durenberger1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 14 of 31 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
