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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
39 filings
$4.8M on those filings
Insurance
INS
38 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 36 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2184110th CongressEnhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Al SimpsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: 2011-2017 COS REP Mick Mulvaney29 filingsthrough 2023
WILLIAM B O'NEIL jrBlue Cross & Blue Shield of South CarolinaCovered position: House Legislative Assistant14 filingsthrough 2011
Al SimpsonDue South Advocacy, LLCCovered position: Jan 2011 - Feb 2017 - Office of Congressman Mick Mulvaney9 filingsthrough 2026
George Lee JohnsonBlue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina8 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 47 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: blue-cross-blue-shield-of-south-carolina.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
20 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$350K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$329K 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.
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1206112th CongressAccess to Professional Health Insurance Advisors Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4626111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4700111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4757111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6130111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1368110th CongressPersonalized Health Information Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 506110th CongressHealth Partnership Through Creative Federalism Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1370112th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.1 filingthrough 2012
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.
through 2009
James A D'AlessioBlue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina7 filingsthrough 2011
David RuddBlue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina6 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 3 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
