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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$350K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
15 filings
$350K on those filings
Education
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 254113th CongressBonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 565113th CongressMississippi River Navigation Sustainment Act8 filingsthrough 2014
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: childrens-cardiomyopathy-foundation-inc.
EDU
3 filings
$50K 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.
113th Congress
Teaching Children to Save Lives Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 436114th CongressSAFE PLAY Act4 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3625112th CongressCardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Risk Assessment, and Training in the Schools (HEARTS) Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2124112th CongressCardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Risk Assessment, and Training in the Schools (HEARTS) Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 829114th CongressSAFE PLAY Act3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1177114th CongressEvery Student Succeeds Act3 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3020114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1695114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5324113th CongressSAFE PLAY Act2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2718113th CongressSAFE PLAY Act2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4015114th CongressCardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Risk Assessment, and Training in the Schools (HEARTS) Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 436114th CongressLongshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Clarification Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
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.
4 filings
through 2015
Jim TwaddellFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Leg. Aide/Dep. Comm. Dir., Senator Arlen Specter4 filingsthrough 2013
Amy WalkerFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Asst. to COS/LA J Risch, Ast. Dep.Sch. J. Warner4 filingsthrough 2013
Jose Santos WossFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Robert Menendez3 filingsthrough 2015
Sarah SavoyFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP1 filingthrough 2015
Andrew BowmanFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator Chris Dodd1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
