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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: bcbsm-inc.
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.
BUD
59 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
9 filings
$269K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
8 filings
$266K 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.
115th Congress
State Age Rating Flexibility Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3117th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act7 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1346116th CongressMedicare Buy-In and Health Care Stabilization Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1425116th CongressPatient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1499116th CongressProtecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3502116th CongressProtecting People From Surprise Medical Bills Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 965116th CongressCREATES Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 986116th CongressProtecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 987116th CongressStrengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 10545119th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1843119th CongressTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to increase transparency in generic drug applications.6 filingsthrough 2026
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.
