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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$815K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 524114th CongressComprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6157115th CongressDepartment of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate12 filingsthrough 2018
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate10 filingsthrough 2018
Jerry DriscollForbes-Tate10 filingsthrough 2018
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: November 10 - October 13 with Senator Rob Portman December 08 - April 10 with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison January 05 - March 06 with Senator Mike DeWine10 filingsthrough 2018
Derrick M WhiteForbes-Tate
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: adapt-pharma-inc.
115th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
1 filingthrough 2018
S. 3158115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20191 filingthrough 2018
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: Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Orrin Hatch
10 filingsthrough 2018
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Shelby Legislative Correspondent, Senator Richard Shelby7 filingsthrough 2018
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd5 filingsthrough 2018
Rick MurphyForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Kelly Ayotte, April 14 - Jan. 174 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
