41 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Oct 16, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$1.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.8M
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.
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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
36 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
25 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.Res. 152112th CongressRecognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.5 filingsthrough 2012
S.Res. 95112th CongressA resolution increasing awareness of and recognizing the life-saving role of ostomy care and prosthetics in the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.Con.Res. 245111th Congress
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Julie Scott AllenFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP26 filingsthrough 2018
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: convatec.
TAX
8 filings
$550K 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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3790111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5095111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
S. 692116th CongressProtect Medical Innovation Act of 20191 filingthrough 2019
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.
Sarah T. MillsFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide to US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, office of the Ranking Member; Special Legislative Aide to Senator Flake.
7 filingsthrough 2018
TONY MITCHELL jrFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP5 filingsthrough 2018
Jim TwaddellFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP4 filingsthrough 2010
