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.
Health Issues
HCR
39 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
39 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 69 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1499116th CongressProtecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 938116th CongressBLOCKING Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
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: association-for-accessible-medicines-formerly-generic-pharmaceutical-assn.
35 filings
$2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
31 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
22 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$360K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$120K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$120K 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.
116th Congress
FAST Generics Act of 2019
8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2051115th CongressFAST Generics Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2853117th CongressBLOCKING Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act7 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2212115th CongressCREATES Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 974115th CongressCREATES Act of 20187 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 965116th CongressCREATES Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2019
S. 340116th CongressCREATES Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2841114th CongressFAST Generics Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Covered position:
40 filingsthrough 2023
David Paul PelusoKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA; Chief of Staff, Communications Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Press Secretary and Executive Assistant - Representative Gus Bilirakis, R-FL.19 filingsthrough 2021
Mj KennyKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Floor Assistant - Office of the Senate Democratic Whip; Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent - Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)17 filingsthrough 2023
Rose Sullivan (Listed In Error)Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Constituent Services Advocate, Outreach Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director and Chief of Staff - Senator Amy Klobuchar17 filingsthrough 2019
Adam HechavarriaKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director - Sen. Todd Young, R-IN; Legislative Director - Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH; Budget Analyst - Senate Budget Committee; Legislative Assistant, Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, Correspondence Assistant - Se13 filingsthrough 2023
