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
64 filings
$4.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
57 filings
$4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 122 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1724113th CongressKids First Research Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
S. 192116th CongressCommunity and Public Health Programs Extension Act8 filingsthrough 2020
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.73 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance72 filingsthrough 2026
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance; Staff Dir., Senate Aging Cmte.; Leg. Asst., Congressman Billy Tauzin56 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: breakthrough-t1d-fka-juvenile-diabetes-research-foundation-international.
56 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
4 filings
$240K 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.
115th Congress
Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1427114th CongressMedicare CGM Access Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1470114th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 804114th CongressMedicare CGM Access Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 810114th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2810113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1895116th CongressLower Health Care Costs Act7 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2430115th CongressFDA Reauthorization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1871113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Beneficiary Access Act of 20137 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.
Elizabeth T Murray
Tarplin, Downs & Young, LLC
Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham
52 filingsthrough 2026
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Majority Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Committee; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner41 filingsthrough 2024
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Counselor to the Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept of Justice; Spec Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept of Justice; Counsel and LA, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun40 filingsthrough 2026
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Health, W&M Cmte; Sr. Policy Advisor, Majority Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Majority Whip McCarthy; Professional Staff, Republican Study Cmte.; Leg. Aid, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price28 filingsthrough 2024
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS28 filingsthrough 2015
Kimberly Lynn BrandtTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel - Senate Cmte. on Finance19 filingsthrough 2024
Isaac A FordjourTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC19 filingsthrough 2014
Margaret JosephTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.18 filingsthrough 2026
Laura FriedelTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee13 filingsthrough 2025
Peter FiseTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform10 filingsthrough 2024
Parick Braerton CarrollTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg Asst. Rep. Ray LaHood, Leg Dir. Rep. Kevin Yoder, PSM Senate Appropriations Cmte.3 filingsthrough 2024
Jeff ReczekTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Dir. CDC Washington, Professional Staff Sen. Appropriations Cmte, Program Examiner OMB, Program Analyst Dept. of Transportation2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 14 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
