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.
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: bluecross-blueshield-of-tennessee.
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.
68 filings
$8.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
53 filings
$5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
40 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
6 filings
$2M on those filings
Postal
POS
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$23K 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. 779114th CongressNorthern Virginia Metrorail Extension Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 123114th CongressObamacare Taxpayer Bailout Prevention Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1486114th CongressPatriot Employer Tax Credit Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 183114th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 763113th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 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.
Bluecross Blueshield of Tennessee
10 filingsthrough 2011
James Wesley CrooksHall & Associates, LLC6 filingsthrough 2009
Leo FarberHall & Associates, LLC5 filingsthrough 2008
Mark NicholsonHall & Associates, LLCCovered position: Associate1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 3 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
