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-college-of-rheumatology.
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.
MMM
75 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
16 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
11 filings
$940K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$150K 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.
115th Congress
Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act
16 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 201716 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 849115th CongressProtecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act16 filingsthrough 2018
S. 251115th CongressProtecting Medicare from Executive Action Act of 201716 filingsthrough 2018
S. 637115th CongressCreating Transparency to Have Drug Rebates Unlocked (C-THRU) Act of 201716 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1600114th CongressPatients' Access to Treatments Act of 201516 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 775114th CongressMedicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
S. 539114th CongressMedicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 201515 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1416113th CongressCancer Patient Protection Act of 201315 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1703115th CongressMedical Product Communications Act of 201714 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1920115th CongressTo amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare, and for other purposes.14 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2641115th CongressPromoting Life-Saving New Therapies for Neonates Act of 201714 filingsthrough 2018
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.
25 filings
through 2020
Amanda Grimm WiegrefeAmerican College of Rheumatology18 filingsthrough 2024
Tim HutchinsonDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator18 filingsthrough 2014
Albert WynnDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman17 filingsthrough 2014
