Blue Cross Blue Shield — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Blue Cross Blue Shield
District of Columbia
16 filings from 1 registrant · 2014–2018 · latest filed May 22, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$680K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$680K
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.
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.
Health Issues
HCR
14 filings
$620K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$400K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1624114th CongressProtecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act3 filingsthrough 2015
Marc LampkinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Dir.-Senate Republican Conf. Sectys officeGeneral Counsel - House Republican ConferenceStaff/Counsel - House Education and Labor Comm.15 filingsthrough 2018
Brian WildBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor-Office of Speaker John Boehner Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs- VP Cheney Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Toomey Legislative Assistant- Sen. Hank Brown13 filingsthrough 2018
Laura Johnson BollierBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative intern - Senate HELP Committee12 filingsthrough 2018
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: blue-cross-blue-shield.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Health Coverage State Flexibility Act of 2016
3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1099114th CongressPACE Act3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 83113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20151 filingthrough 2014
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.
Zachary Pfister
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Covered position: LegDir Rep Larry Kissell; SenLegAsst Rep Larry Kissell; LegAsst Rep Larry Kissell; LegCorrespondent Rep Larry Kissell; LegCorrespondent Rep Brad Ellsworth; StaffAsst Rep Brad Ellsworth; LegIntern Sen Evan Bayh
10 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth Anne MaierBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Leg Dir Sen Jon Kyl; Sen Policy Advisor Sen Jon Kyl; Leg Asst Sen Jon Kyl; Leg Asst Rep Jon Kyl; Prof Staff House Sel Comm on Children Youth & Families5 filingsthrough 2018
Russell W. SullivanBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee5 filingsthrough 2018
Brian Thomas McguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Chief Speechwriter, HUD; Chief Speechwriter, Sen Mitch McConnell; Deputy Comm Dir, Sen Mitch McConnell; Acting Staff Dir, Republican Comm Center, Sen Mitch McConnell; Chief of Staff, Sen Mitch McConnell3 filingsthrough 2018
Lori HarjuBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor, House Ways & Means Comm; Chief of Staff, Rep Kevin Brady; Deputy Chief/Leg Dir, Rep Kevin Brady; Dir of Legisl and Intergovernmental Affairs, Internatl Trade Admin-US Dept of Commerce; Legisl Dir., Rep Philip Crane2 filingsthrough 2018
Harold HancockBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, House Ways and Means Committee1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
