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: carefirst-bluecross-blueshield.
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.
7 filings
$940K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
6 filings
$800K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$420K 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. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act4 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 7623118th CongressTelehealth Modernization Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Carefirst Bluecross Blueshield
Covered position: VP, Federal Public Policy
10 filingsthrough 2019
Gregory M GillVenable LLPCovered position: Legis. Dir., Rep. Hoyer; Asst. Staff H. Approp. Cmt10 filingsthrough 2012
Marie GrantCarefirst Bluecross BlueshieldCovered position: VP, Public Policy6 filingsthrough 2021
Patrick TwohyCarefirst Bluecross BlueshieldCovered position: Director, Government Affairs3 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin KleinRED+BLUE StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)2 filingsthrough 2026
Kathryn WiseRED+BLUE StrategiesCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Vern Buchanan (2014-2015); Leg. Dir, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (2013-2014); Sr. Legislative Asst, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (2011-2013); Legislative Correspondent/Asst, Rep. Mary Fallin (2010-2011); Staff Asst, Rep. Mary Fallin (2009-2010)2 filingsthrough 2026
Samuel OlchykVenable LLPCovered position: Legis. Counsel, Jt. Cmtee on Taxation1 filingthrough 2009
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: Legis. Dir., Rep. Wes Watkins1 filingthrough 2009
JOHN J O'NEILL jrVenable LLPCovered position: Tax & Pens. Cnsul Sen. Fin. Com.; Poly Dir Sen. Whip1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
