Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Bluebird Strategies (on Behalf of Thermo Fisher Scientific)
District of Columbia
4 filings from 2 registrants · 2019–2020 · latest filed Oct 18, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$30K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$30K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$30K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2009 116th CongressRemoving Barriers to Allergy Diagnostic Testing Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
- S. 2246 116th CongressAllergy Testing Access Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Megan Sussman Herber Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Legislative Director/Senior Legislative Assistant/Legislative Assistant, Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA)4 filingsthrough 2020
- Megan Sussman Herber Faegre Baker Daniels ConsultingCovered position: Legislative Director/Senior Legislative Assistant/Legislative Assistant, Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA)3 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
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: bluebird-strategies-on-behalf-of-thermo-fisher-scientific.