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.
Agriculture
AGR
81 filings
$5.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
78 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.Res. 285116th CongressRecognizing over 85 years of successful State-based alcohol regulation since the creation of an effective system of independent beer, wine, and spirits distribution.6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5034111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Charles JeffersonWine InstituteCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Thompson; Asst. to COS, House Dem. Leader; Staff Asst. White House Office of Leg. Affairs54 filingsthrough 2026
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-institute.
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
75 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
69 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
53 filings
$4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
43 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
31 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Constitution
CON
24 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Beverage Industry
BEV
18 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
16 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Advertising
ADV
16 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
15 filings
$1M 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.
4 filingsthrough 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.
19 filings
through 2014
Sara Hope MurphyWine InstituteCovered position: Director, Federal Relations16 filingsthrough 2013
James B ClawsonJbc International8 filingsthrough 2009
Robert WoodBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing7 filingsthrough 2018
Jennifer Larkin LukawskiBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing7 filingsthrough 2018
Jonathan MantzBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing7 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew J LewinBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing5 filingsthrough 2018
Jason IsaakPolicy Development GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Representative Jim Kolbe3 filingsthrough 2010
Kathy SensemanPolicy Development Group3 filingsthrough 2010
