WASHINGTON—Beverage company Coca-Cola Co. spent more than $1.7 million in 2007 to lobby on marketing regulations, school nutrition legislation, trade issues and immigration reform, as well as other industry-related issues.
The Atlanta-based company spent $860,00 in the second half of 2007 to lobby members of Congress and federal agencies, according to a disclosure form posted online Thursday by the Senate's public records office.
In the first half of last year, the company spent $880,000 to lobby on similar issues, as well as executive compensation.
Coca-Cola lobbied the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of State, Overseas Private Investment Corp., a U.S. Trade Representative and the Federal Reserve System.
Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.
