23 filings from 4 registrants · 2009–2015 · latest filed Oct 13, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$640K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$640K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Health Issues
HCR
20 filings
$640K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
14 filings
$570K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Regina Maria SherickAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senate Finance Committee9 filingsthrough 2012
Colin RoskeyAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Health Policy Advisor and Counsel, Senate Finance Committee9 filingsthrough 2012
Marilyn K YagerAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Dep. Ass't to the Pres., White House Office of Public Liason9 filingsthrough 2012
Thomas A ScullyAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Administrator & Consultant, CMS; Dep. Ass't to the Pres., ; ; Counselor to the Dir., Dir. for Hum. Res. Vets and Labor & ; ; Associate Dir. for Legislative Affairs, OMB
The filings
The 20 most recent of 23 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: athenahealth.
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.
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$170K on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$170K 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.
9 filingsthrough 2012
Karen SealanderMcdermott Will & Schulte LLP8 filingsthrough 2013
