24 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 16, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
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.
Insurance
INS
24 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
24 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2575113th CongressSave American Workers Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4302113th CongressProtecting Access to Medicare Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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-inc-formerly-aetna-life-casualty.
24 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$600K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$600K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
10 filings
$600K on those filings
Retirement
RET
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.
113th Congress
Streamlining Verification for Americans Act
1 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 83113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20151 filingthrough 2014
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.
12 filingsthrough 2010
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Counsel-H.Com on Natural Resources (87-08)12 filingsthrough 2010
Tim UrbanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2010
Sarah Kuehl EggeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 11 Dep Staff Dir, Joint Select Cmte on Deficit Red11 filingsthrough 2014
Daniel EsquibelErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)9 filingsthrough 2013
Holly A BodeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Sen. Aging Com, LC 1985-1993)9 filingsthrough 2011
Richard MeltzerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)8 filingsthrough 2009
Robert J SchellhasErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-02 CoS to Rep. Rob Portman6 filingsthrough 2014
Jeffrey LeveyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2010
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 01-11 Deputy CoS to Rep. Tiberi3 filingsthrough 2012
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 03-06 Staff Dir. Senate Comm. on Small Business1 filingthrough 2012
Bruce GatesErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
