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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: distilled-spirits-council-of-the-u-s-inc.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $79M in expenses.
TAX · 1 client
68 filings
$79M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
68 filings
$79M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
47 filings
$51.9M on those filings
Postal
POS · 1 client
46 filings
$56.3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
32 filings
$32M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
25 filings
$27.1M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
17 filings
$23.4M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
8 filings
$11.1M on those filings
Constitution
CON · 1 client
7 filings
$9M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
4 filings
$4.9M 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 money 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.
19 filings1 client · through 2023
Denzel McguireCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Mitch McConnell (6/10-12/14); Deputy Chief of Staff/Policy Director, Sen. Jon Kyl (3/9-6/10); Staff Director, U.S. Senate Budget Committee (2/06-2/09); Chief of Staff/Legislative Director, Sen. Judd Gregg (1/05-2/09)14 filings1 client · through 2026
Jack ThompsonCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff/Legislative Director for Rep. Vance McAllister (2013 - 2015); Legislative Director (2007-2013), Legislative Assistant (2005-2006) & Legislative Correspondent (2004-2005) for Rep. Rodney Alexander9 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
