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.
Pharmacy
PHA
10 filings
$365K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
8 filings
$130K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1629117th CongressFairness in Orphan Drug Exclusivity Act1 filingthrough 2021
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
William BurkeRubicon Advisors, LLC10 filingsthrough 2024
James BarnetteSteptoe LLPCovered position: Gen Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Comm (1995-2005; 2011-2012)7 filingsthrough 2021
Lisa Mortier WaltzmanSteptoe LLPCovered position: Policy Director, Representative Sue Myrick (2002-2005)4 filingsthrough 2019
Leslie BelcherSteptoe LLP3 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: aquestive-therapeutics-inc.
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.
Jason Abel
Steptoe LLP
Covered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Rules Cmtee; Counsel, Senator Schumer
3 filingsthrough 2025
Jack ButtarazziSteptoe LLP3 filingsthrough 2025
Matthew FlynnSteptoe LLPCovered position: Dep Asst Sec Def (DOD); Counselor, Land & Minerals Mgmt (DOI); Dep Asst to the Pres & Acting WH Cabinet Sec., Dep Cabinet Sec., Special Asst to the Pres, Sr. Dir. for Cabinet Affairs, (EOP); Sr Advisor (State); LC/Dep Health Counsel, Intern (House3 filingsthrough 2025
