42 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Oct 16, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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
29 filings
$1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
12 filings
$460K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
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.
Theodore H BornsteinFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Former Chief of Staff for Sen. Herb Kohl18 filingsthrough 2014
Scott L KlugFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Former Member of Congress18 filingsthrough 2014
Michelle A LeedsFoley & Lardner LLPCovered position: Former staff for Rep. Grace Napolitano15 filingsthrough 2014
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: aurora-healthcare.
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.
TAX
9 filings
$390K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$160K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Retirement
RET
5 filings
$300K 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.
Kristen O'BrienOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC12 filingsthrough 2020
Joseph L ColaneriFoley & Lardner LLP7 filingsthrough 2014
Darren WebbOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC6 filingsthrough 2020
ROBERT C GEIST jrFoley & Lardner LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Fred StarzykBroydrick & Associates5 filingsthrough 2009
William B BroydrickBroydrick & Associates5 filingsthrough 2009
Kara OakleyBroydrick & Associates5 filingsthrough 2009
Elizabeth StowerOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC3 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 3 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
