28 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed May 4, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$650K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$650K
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.
Health Issues
HCR
20 filings
$590K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3127110th CongressSelect Agent Program and Biosafety Improvement Act of 20082 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steven GrossmanHps Group, LLCCovered position: Dep. Asst. Sec. for Health, DHHS (1985-1989)7 filingsthrough 2009
Jennifer HannesschlagerMckenna, Long & Aldridge6 filingsthrough 2009
John Michael ClericiMckenna, Long & Aldridge6 filingsthrough 2009
Marc B SamuelsHillco Partners6 filingsthrough 2009
Darius AndersonPlatinum Advisors, LLC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 28 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: allergan.
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.
5 filings
$360K 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.
