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.
Pharmacy
PHA
42 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 64 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2212115th CongressCREATES Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 974115th CongressCREATES Act of 20187 filingsthrough 2018
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
James E. RischR-Idaho
Bills: S. 1094, S. 140, S. 1404 +12 more
61 filings
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging, Sr. Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson, Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen43 filingsthrough 2026
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs43 filingsthrough 2026
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House43 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Chappell
The filings
The 20 most recent of 42 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: association-of-accessible-medicines-formerly-known-as-gpha.
3 filings
$180K 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.
119th Congress
Expedited Access to Biosimilars Act
5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1954119th CongressBiosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act5 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1041119th CongressAffordable Prescriptions for Patients Act4 filingsthrough 2025
S. 1302119th CongressIncreasing Transparency in Generic Drug Applications Act4 filingsthrough 2025
S. 43119th CongressSkinny Labels, Big Savings Act4 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 965116th CongressCREATES Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 340116th CongressCREATES Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
S. 2615114th CongressIncreasing Competition in Pharmaceuticals Act4 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 8070118th CongressServicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2140118th CongressPatent Eligibility Restoration Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2220118th CongressPREVAIL Act3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Fierce Government Relations
Covered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker, Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Pickering, Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering
43 filingsthrough 2026
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst,Sen. McConnell, Legislative Correspondent,Sen. McConnell, Legislative Aide,Sen. McConnell, Legislative Asst,Sen. McConnell, Appropriations Coordinator, Sen. McConnell, Sr. Legislative Asst, Sen. McConnell, Chief of Staff, Sen. McConnell41 filingsthrough 2025
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant,Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent,Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant,Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence39 filingsthrough 2025
Aleix JarvisFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Lindsey Graham, Legislative Director, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lindsey Graham, Staff Assistant, Congressman Charles Taylor37 filingsthrough 2024
Eric ZulkoskyFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Director of Member Services, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, LD, Rep. Scalise, LA, Rep. Scalise, LA, Sen. Johanns, LC, Sen. Johanns, LC Sen. Dole, Mail Manager, Sen. Dole, Staff Assistant, Sen. Dole33 filingsthrough 2025
Danielle MaurerFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Asst,House Rules Cmte, Professional Staff Member,House Rules Cmte, Sr. Floor Asst,House Maj. Leader, Director Member Services,House Min. Leader, Director Member Services,Speaker of the House, Staff Asst,OMB, Deputy to the Assoc. Director,OMB8 filingsthrough 2017
Patrick CliftonFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst. to the President for Operations, Executive Office of the President, President Donald J. Trump (17-19).5 filingsthrough 2026
Jacobus VreeburgFierce Government RelationsCovered position: House Homeland Sec. Cmte.-Staff Asst., Dep. Parl., Parl., Rep. Messer-Leg. Dir., House Rep. Policy Cmte.-Staff Dir., NSC-Staff Officer, Acting Dep. Exec. Sec., Dep. Exec. Sec., House Rep. Conference-Policy Dir., Rep. Stefanik-Policy Dir., USUN-W-Dir.4 filingsthrough 2026
James WilliamsFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Sen. Finance Cmte: Sr Tax/Econ Policy Adv & Tax/IRS Subcmte Staff Dir | Sen. Thune: Sr Policy/Tax/Trade Policy Adv | Sen. Roberts: Dep Leg Dir/Sr Econ Policy Adv | Sen. Hatch: Dep Leg Dir/Sr Policy Adv | Rep. Marchant: Leg Dir/Sr Policy Adv1 filingthrough 2026
Covered positions · 12 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.