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: covidien.
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.
BUD
29 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
16 filings
$880K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
9 filings
$470K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
6 filings
$310K 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.
110th Congress
Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009
6 filingsthrough 2008
S. 99112th CongressAmerican Medical Isotopes Production Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 112112th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3204112th CongressGuidance Accountability and Transparency Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3205112th CongressFDA Renewing Efficiency From Outside Reviewer Management Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3206112th CongressCultivating Scientific Expertise to Foster Innovation for Patients Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3207112th CongressModernizing Laboratory Test Standards for Patients Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3208112th CongressPatients Come First Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Daniele BaierleinPodesta Group, Inc.
17 filingsthrough 2014
ARANTHAN JONES iiPodesta Group, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2014
Thomas B SparkmanPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Intern, Senate HELP Committee12 filingsthrough 2012
Robert LeonardAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld11 filingsthrough 2011
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: 1996; Leg aide to Sen/Coverdell, 1993-9411 filingsthrough 2011
