• Issues related to tax reform including the U.S. corporate tax rate, expensing for capital expenditures and inventory, deduction for dividends paid, LIFO, repatriation for foreign corporate earnings, federal excise tax on beverage alcohol, the Section 5010 tax credit, advertising deductibility, government subsidies to foreign business, ready to drink products and other matters - no specific legislation. S.1781 and H.R.4073 - A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies - entire bill.
• Issues related to restrictions on consumer advertising - no specific legislation. Issues related to the implementation of Section 116 of the Food Safety Modernization Act - no specific legislation.
• Issues related to family majority controlled companies - no specific legislation.
• Issues involving U.S. trade agenda including bi-lateral and multi-lateral trade agreements - no specific legislation. Issues related to implementation of Customs Reauthorization and Trade Facilitation Act - no specific legislation. Issues related to EU/UK tariffs on American distilled spirits - no specific legislation Issues related to the imposition of Section 301 tariffs - no specific legislation. Issues related to government subsidies to foreign businesses - no specific legislation. Issues related to Customs and Border Protection's denial of duty drawbacks paid to Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau - no specific legislation. S.1781 and H.R.4073 - A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide a uniform 8-digit subheading number for all whiskies - entire bill.
• Issues related to distilled spirits sales in military commissaries - no specific legislation.
• Issues related to proposed EPA fugitive source emissions - no specific legislation.
• H.R. 5582 - White Oak Resilience Act - entire bill. Issues related to dietary guidelines - no specific legislation.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to present

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Defense, Environmental/Superfund, Agriculture, Constitution, Energy/Nuclear, Accounting, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Budget/Appropriations, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Beverage Industry

Spending: about $16,185,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Executive Office of the President (EOP), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Treasury - Dept of,, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), U.S. Senate,, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Trade & Development Agency (TDA)