34 filings from 3 registrants · 2011–2016 · latest filed May 24, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$1.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.9M
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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
33 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
17 filings
$1M 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 — 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.
H.R. 3245113th CongressMedicare Home Health Fraud Reduction Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4994113th CongressIMPACT Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
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: almost-family.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
IMPACT Act of 2014
3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4302113th CongressProtecting Access to Medicare Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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 2014
Kate HullFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen12 filingsthrough 2014
Thomas A ScullyAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Administrator & Consultant, CMS; Dep. Ass't to the Pres., ; ; Counselor to the Dir., Dir. for Hum. Res. Vets and Labor & ; ; Associate Dir. for Legislative Affairs, OMB12 filingsthrough 2014
Michael ChappellFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering12 filingsthrough 2014
Mark Warren IsakowitzFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Press Secretary for Congressman Gilmor12 filingsthrough 2014
Kirsten ChadwickFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs12 filingsthrough 2014
Danielle MaurerFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB12 filingsthrough 2014
William PiperFierce, Isakowitz & BlalockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell12 filingsthrough 2014
Danielle MaurerFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, House Rules Committee ; ; Professional Staff Member, House Rules Committee ; ; Senior Floor Assistant, House Majority Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Republican Leader ; ; Director of Member Services, Office of the Speaker ; ; Staff Assistant, Offie of Management and Budget ; ; Deputy to the Associate Director, OMB6 filingsthrough 2015
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson ; ; Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen6 filingsthrough 2015
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs6 filingsthrough 2015
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham ; ; Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor6 filingsthrough 2015
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Aide, Senator McConnell ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Appropriations Coordinator, Senator McConnell ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Senator McConnell ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator McConnell6 filingsthrough 2015
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education ; ; Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs ; ; Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House6 filingsthrough 2015
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Chip Pickering ; ; Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering6 filingsthrough 2015
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence5 filingsthrough 2015
Colin RoskeyAlston & Bird LLP4 filingsthrough 2012
Michael ParkAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Health Policy Counsel, Senate Finance Committee2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 20 of 21 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
