49 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Oct 22, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
36 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
19 filings
$550K on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3358115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1771115th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
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: biocryst-pharmaceuticals-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.
HCR
10 filings
$370K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$30K 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.
113th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014
3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1034113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20143 filingsthrough 2013
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.
7 filings
through 2010
Dena MinningMedexpert Consulting, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2014
LF PAYNE jrMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)Covered position: United States Congressman4 filingsthrough 2010
Ronald L PlattMcguirewoods Consulting (a Subsidiary of Mcguirewoods LLP)4 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 4 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
