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: apotex-corp.
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.
23 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
14 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
10 filings
$2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
10 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$650K 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.
114th Congress
FAST Generics Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1902110th CongressProtecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3700110th CongressFair Medicaid Drug Payment Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 369111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2853117th CongressBLOCKING Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 938116th CongressBLOCKING Act of 20196 filingsthrough 2020
S. 27112th CongressPreserve Access to Affordable Generics Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3777111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1315111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5629110th CongressPathway for Biosimilars Act6 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2510118th CongressRAPID Reserve Act5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2476115th CongressExpanding Access to Low Cost Generic Drugs Act5 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.
Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLC
Covered position: Policy Analyst,Senate Republican Policy Committee;Acting Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary,USDA;Senior Advisor to the Secretary,USDA;Legislative Director,Cong. Drew Ferguson,R-GA; Legis. Director, Legis. Assistant, Scheduler Cong. Austin Scott,R
Brian BallardBallard Partners8 filingsthrough 2025
Hunter MorgenBallard PartnersCovered position: Policy Advisor, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. State Dept. (2017); Deputy Director, Office of Trade & Manufacturing Policy, WH (2017-2018); Special Assistant to the President, Office of the Senior Advisor for Policy, WH (2018-2020)8 filingsthrough 2025
Lisa KountoupesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Asst to the President & House Liaison,Special Asst to the President for Legislative Affairs,Asst. Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB,Special Asst to Undersecretary,Dept of Energy,Policy Advisor to Chairman of Energy&Commerce Committee3 filingsthrough 2024
Eric S KesslerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. John D. Dingell3 filingsthrough 2008
Kenneth D SalomonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2008
Stephen C SayleDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Majority Counsel, House Energy and Commerce C3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
