ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 61 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

1,894

Filed by

Reported in-house

$224,340,000

Reported by firms

$84,004,496

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

81 filings for 2008, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
2nd Quarter - Amendment 2nd Quarter 2008	RYAN MACKINNON VASAPOLI AND BERZOK, LLP	$70,000 reported
4th Quarter - Termination Amendment 4th Quarter 2008	THE OB-C GROUP, LLC	$60,000 reported
4th Quarter - Termination 4th Quarter 2008	TIBER CREEK GROUP	$80,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	RYAN MACKINNON VASAPOLI AND BERZOK, LLP	$70,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	RICHARD F. HOHLT	$60,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP	$220,000 reported
Registration 2nd Quarter 2008	RAFFANIELLO & ASSOCIATES	— reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC	$3,140,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	THE RUSSELL GROUP, INC.	$70,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	WINSTON TAYLOR LLP (FORMERLY KNOWN AS WINSTON & STRAWN LLP)	$65,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC In-house	77	$224,340,000
CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP	77	$5,850,000
ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP	26	$5,290,000
THE RUSSELL GROUP, INC.	77	$5,180,000
RICHARD F. HOHLT	76	$3,611,496
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC	63	$3,460,000
CAPITOL LEGISLATIVE STRATEGIES LLC	64	$3,050,000
SUSAN PLATT	76	$2,709,000
NORTH SOUTH GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES, FKA JDM PUBLIC STRATEGIES, LLC	59	$2,690,000
MATTOON & ASSOCIATES, LLC	50	$2,615,000
FARRAGUT PARTNERS LLP	43	$2,580,000
PALMETTO GROUP	38	$2,570,000
RAFFANIELLO & ASSOCIATES	71	$2,430,000
RYAN MACKINNON VASAPOLI AND BERZOK, LLP	34	$2,360,000
MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC	37	$2,350,000
FORBES-TATE	42	$2,100,000
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	43	$2,070,000
VENABLE LLP	46	$1,980,000
CAPITOL HILL STRATEGIES, LLC	41	$1,960,000
WASHINGTON2 ADVOCATES	52	$1,957,500
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	39	$1,950,000
BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP	30	$1,840,000
THEGROUP DC, LLC	31	$1,830,000
MARSHALL & POPP, LLC	30	$1,800,000
RESOLUTION PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC	31	$1,470,000
CAUTHEN FORBES & WILLIAMS	29	$1,395,000
SLAIMAN CONSULTING LLC	35	$1,360,000
THORN RUN PARTNERS	31	$1,240,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	33	$1,170,000
MCGUIREWOODS CONSULTING (A SUBSIDIARY OF MCGUIREWOODS LLP)	23	$1,100,000
WINSTON TAYLOR LLP (FORMERLY KNOWN AS WINSTON & STRAWN LLP)	14	$1,010,000
LIZ WILLIAMS AND COMPANY	31	$820,000
HARBINGER STRATEGIES, LLC	15	$750,000
BURLEIGH LEONARD AND COMPANY LLC (FORMERLY "BURLEIGH LEONARD")	15	$739,500
REPUBLIC CONSULTING, LLC	16	$720,000
TROUTMAN STRATEGIES	31	$690,000
VENTURE GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES, LLC (FKA HOBART HALLAWAY & QUAYLE VENTURES, LLC)	17	$650,000
TIBER CREEK GROUP	6	$640,000
ABERNATHY CONSULTANTS, CATHY	14	$592,500
MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS, LLP	13	$570,000
MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC	11	$530,000
C2 GROUP, LLC	15	$470,000
DONALD M. NELSON, JR., LLC	30	$424,500
MCGUIREWOODS LLP	6	$390,000
THE WASHINGTON TAX & PUBLIC POLICY GROUP	14	$380,000
BASSGLP LLC	8	$350,000
535 GROUP, LLC	10	$300,000
THE HARPLE GROUP, LLC	9	$270,000
CAPITOL 6 ADVISORS	7	$270,000
THE PAUL LAXALT GROUP	6	$240,000
THE LAXALT CORPORATION	6	$240,000
DENTONS US LLP	8	$170,000
OFF HILL STRATEGIES L.L.C.	6	$170,000
THIRD STREET STRATEGIES, LLC.	5	$150,000
EMPIRE CONSULTING GROUP	3	$150,000
GROOM LAW GROUP, CHARTERED	4	$120,000
THE OB-C GROUP, LLC	2	$100,000
ERNST & YOUNG LLP (WASHINGTON COUNCIL ERNST & YOUNG)	2	$50,000
BATES CAPITOL GROUP, INC.	2	$50,000
THE MATHIS HARPLE GROUP	15	$30,000
DOBBINS CONSULTING, LLC	15	—

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Tobacco	TOB	1,187
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	1,031
Health Issues	HCR	357
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	342
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	123
Torts	TOR	120
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	82
Government Issues	GOV	77
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	63
Agriculture	AGR	59
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)	FOO	55
Foreign Relations	FOR	45
Medicare/Medicaid	MMM	27
Defense	DEF	26
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities	FIN	22

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 1108	110th	60
H.R. 1136	115th	45
H.R. 2411	116th	43
H.R. 4134	112th	43
H.R. 1256	111th	42
S. 625	110th	40
H.R. 1676	111th	36
H.R. 2339	116th	35
S. 1147	111th	33
H.R. 5376	117th	31
H.R. 1	119th	29
S. 1258	116th	24
S. 142	114th	20
H.R. 2058	114th	20
H.R. 3590	111th	20
H.R. 3963	110th	20
H.R. 4081	110th	19
H.R. 1	115th	18
H.R. 792	113th	16
H.R. 4368	118th	15
H.R. 4213	111th	15
S. 1893	110th	14
H.R. 3268	115th	13
H.R. 1639	112th	13
H.R. 3617	117th	12

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.