Anheuser-Busch spent $820,000 in second quarter lobbying gov’t on food safety, excise taxes

Anheuser-Busch spent $820K lobbying gov’t in 2Q

WASHINGTON — Anheuser-Busch, the U.S. unit of ABInbev, spent $820,000 in the second quarter to lobby the government on brewers’ excise taxes and matters relating to the alcohol industry, according to a recent disclosure report.

That’s slightly less than the $930,000 it spent in the year-ago period, and the $670,000 it spent in the first quarter of 2010.

The St. Louis-based maker of Bud Light and Budweiser, which was bought in 2008 by Belgian brewer InBev to form Anheuser-Busch InBev, also lobbied on food safety and labeling, transportation, Wall Street reform and other issues in the April-June period.

Anheuser-Busch lobbied both houses of Congress, according to the report filed July 20 with the House clerk’s office.