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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
46 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
26 filings
$780K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4302115th CongressCongressional Accountability for Emergency Lending Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4302114th CongressEND OF AN ERA Act7 filingsthrough 2016
Daniel M ToddTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Health Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Special Assistant, Office of Admin. Ct. - Medicare & Medicaid49 filingsthrough 2026
Paul EdattelTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Policy Assistant, Office of the Speaker; Professional Staff Member for the Majority at the House Energy & Commerce Committee; Legislative Assistant & Legislative Director, Rep. John Shadegg34 filingsthrough 2026
Taylor SextonTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response, HHS; Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Legislation, HHS; Health Care Policy Fellow, Representative Michael Burgess20 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 46 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: biodesix-inc.
MED
22 filings
$640K 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.
117th Congress
VALID Act of 2021
4 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 4302116th CongressHomeless Assistance Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2369118th CongressVALID Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4128118th CongressPayment Choice Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 5800117th CongressCommission on Americans Living Abroad Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
S. 3404117th CongressA bill to provide the consent of Congress to an amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Mexico.2 filingsthrough 2021
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2022
H.R. 4203114th CongressComfortable and Fair Flight Act1 filingthrough 2015
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.
Jeff LucasTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senator Bill Cassidy; Legislative Assistant/Sr. Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Larry Bucshon19 filingsthrough 2025
Ted LehmanTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Tillis; Senate Judiciary Committee-Counsel, then Chief Counsel for Nominations and Senior Counsel; Senate Judiciary Committee-Staff Assistant and Legislative Assistant11 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas UehleckeTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Professional Staff/Sr. Legislative Assistant, House Ways and Means Subcommittee10 filingsthrough 2024
Eric BergrenTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Brett Guthrie; Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Chief of Staff - Rep. Ron Lewis; Intern, Rep. Bill Baker7 filingsthrough 2025
Kimberly LinthicumTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Representative Bob Franks; Legislative Correspondent, Representative Charles Taylor; Legislative Correspondent, Representative Bill Martini5 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 9 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
