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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
8 filings
$460K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$460K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 32 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1298111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1706111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 369111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 525111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
W Stephen CannonConstantine Cannon, LLP14 filingsthrough 2011
Stephen S AndersonConstantine Cannon, LLP14 filingsthrough 2011
Joseph H GibsonConstantine Cannon, LLPCovered position: 2001-2002; Chief Legis. Counsel and Parliamentarian,13 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 1 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 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: americas-specialty-medicine-companies-comprised-of-participants-on-line-13.
MED
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
3 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.
through 2010
H.R. 1191111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1359111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1292111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1336111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5839110th CongressSafeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S. 301111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2029110th CongressPhysician Payments Sunshine Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1427111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
