12 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2011 · latest filed Dec 27, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$290K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$70K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$220K
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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$290K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$280K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 85111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Lyle B DennisCavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bernard J. Dwyer13 filingsthrough 2011
Emily Justine HolubowichCavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.Covered position: Senior Health Policy Analyst, GAO13 filingsthrough 2011
Emily Justine HolubowichCoalition for Health Services Research4 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 3 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: coalition-for-health-services-research.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
H.R. 3081
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S.Con.Res. 13111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.Con.Res. 312110th CongressRevising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.1 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 2184110th CongressEnhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
