101 filings from 10 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Oct 21, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$18.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$11M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$7.3M
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.
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: alliance-for-quality-nursing-home-care.
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.
BUD
1 filing
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$120K 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
Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act of 2008
10 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6126110th CongressFairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 20086 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2838110th CongressFairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1486112th CongressLong-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1893110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 647111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1179113th CongressImproving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
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.
16 filingsthrough 2013
John JonasSquire Patton Boggs14 filingsthrough 2013
Sean RichardsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Klobuchar13 filingsthrough 2012
Heather R MizeurThe Mizeur Group, LLCCovered position: Mezvinsky, Jackson Lee, J Kennedy, J Kerry13 filingsthrough 2011
