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 lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.17 filingsthrough 2016
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance
The filings
The 20 most recent of 107 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: 3m.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
28 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
14 filings
$950K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
14 filings
$950K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
14 filings
$40K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
10 filings
$320K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$240K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
4 filings
$130K 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 spend 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.
118th Congress
Douglas Mike Day Psychedelic Therapy to Save Lives Act of 2023
8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 638116th CongressPFAS Action Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2810113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2467117th CongressPFAS Action Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1260117th CongressUnited States Innovation and Competition Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 535116th CongressPFAS Action Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1470114th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 160114th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5823114th CongressNaming the Enemy Within Homeland Security Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 149114th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2016
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Covered position:
17 filingsthrough 2016
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. On Finance; Staff Dir., Senate Aging Cmte.; Leg. Asst. Congressman Billy Tauzin17 filingsthrough 2016
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS15 filingsthrough 2015
Elizabeth T MurrayTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer: Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham9 filingsthrough 2016
Ilia RodriguezBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz7 filingsthrough 2017
Isaac A FordjourTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC7 filingsthrough 2014
Debra Martin BryantThe Ferguson Group5 filingsthrough 2010
Mark LimbaughThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: of Reclamation, DOI 1/02-9/05.5 filingsthrough 2010
William Roger GwinnThe Ferguson GroupCovered position: Vic Fazio 1987-1993.5 filingsthrough 2010
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Majority Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Committee; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner4 filingsthrough 2016
Suzanne SullivanSullivan Strategies LLC (Fka Sb Capitol Solutions)Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, US Department of Transportation, February 1997 - August 1998, Assistant Administrator for Government and Industry Affairs, Federal Aviation Administration, September 1998 - May 20022 filingsthrough 2026
Robert LeonardAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2012
