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.
Health Issues
HCR
27 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
18 filings
$1M on those filings
Insurance
INS
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 95 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1490111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
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: aetna.
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.
15 filings
$900K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
8 filings
$350K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Retirement
RET
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Torts
TOR
1 filing
$60K 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.
110th Congress
TRUST in Health Information Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4757111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1193110th CongressKidney Care Quality and Education Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1693110th CongressWired for Health Care Quality Act3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 334110th CongressHealthy Americans Act3 filingsthrough 2008
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.
