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: american-clinical-laboratory-association-acla.
fees reported
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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.
DIS
6 filings
$450K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$450K 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.
117th Congress
Made in America Emergency Preparedness Act
8 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3049117th CongressFresh Start Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3799117th CongressPREVENT Pandemics Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7667117th CongressFood and Drug Amendments of 20224 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 8188117th CongressSaving Access to Laboratory Services Act4 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Wade Ackerman
Covington & Burling LLP
Covered position: Sr. FDA Counsel, US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
14 filingsthrough 2023
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: ​House Rules Committee, Staff Director, Deputy Staff Director; General Counsel (Detailed), House Select Committee on Voting Irregularities; House Committee on Appropriations, Professional Staff, House Office of Parliamentarian, Assoc., Asst., Clerk11 filingsthrough 2022
Ellen FlanneryCovington & Burling LLP5 filingsthrough 2013
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel4 filingsthrough 2021
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush (2008-2009); Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist (2003-2005); Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts (1997-2002); Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker (1994 -1997)3 filingsthrough 2020
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Representative Joe Pitts, Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Special Assistant3 filingsthrough 2020
Ed McclellanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, United States Senate Committee on Finance3 filingsthrough 2020
Brendan ParetsCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senator Martha McSally; Chief Counsel, Senator Jon Kyl; Policy Counsel, Senate Republican Policy Committee; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Gresham Barrett; Constituent Liaison, Rep. Howard Coble2 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 9 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
