Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Cord Blood Association
Illinois
44 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2025 · latest filed Jan 21, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$810K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$810K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
44 filings
$810K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
44 filings
$810K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2820 114th CongressStem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
- H.R. 2820 115th CongressFight Russian Corruption Act4 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Patricia Louise Deloatche Sidley Austin LLPCovered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Orrin Hatch; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, and Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Bilirakis47 filingsthrough 2025
- Tracey Laturner Sidley Austin LLPCovered position: Professional Staff, House Appropriations Committee; Administrative Asst., House Appropriations Committee; Scheduler, Office Manager, Rep. Jim Bunn17 filingsthrough 2022
- Dora Hughes Sidley Austin LLPCovered position: Deputy Director of Health, HELP, Sen. Edward Kennedy; Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Barack Obama; Counselor for Science & Public Health, HHS16 filingsthrough 2018
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: cord-blood-association.