12 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Oct 2, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$200K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$200K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
2 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
Michael WernerHolland & Knight LLP6 filingsthrough 2015
Paul S. BockHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator Herb Kohl6 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas RyanRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLP4 filingsthrough 2009
Joseph V VasapoliRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Minority Counsel, Energy & Commerce, Special Assistant DOE4 filingsthrough 2009
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: actavis-inc.
$70K
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 2015
1 filingthrough 2015
S. 1720114th CongressHarriet Tubman Currency Tribute Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
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.
Matthew BerzokRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: LD, Chief Counsel, LA Rep. Stupak, LA Rep. Deutsch
4 filingsthrough 2009
Jeff MackinnonRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: LD and LA Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)4 filingsthrough 2009
Nick KolovosRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: LA Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-California)1 filingthrough 2009
Nancy L JohnsonBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Former Member of Congress1 filingthrough 2008
Lance B LeggittBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Spec. Asst. to the President for Domestic Policy1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
