37 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2017 · latest filed Jan 22, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$12.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$12.2M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$120K
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.
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-lp.
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.
CPT
17 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
16 filings
$8.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
11 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
10 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
7 filings
$4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
7 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$2M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
3 filings
$170K 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.
9 filings
through 2010
H.R. 1265111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S. 506111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2052113th CongressGlobal Investment in American Jobs Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1023113th CongressGlobal Investment in American Jobs Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 95113th CongressA bill to withhold United States contributions to the United Nations until the United Nations formally retracts the final report of the "United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict".8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1249112th CongressLeahy-Smith America Invents Act8 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 436112th CongressHealth Care Cost Reduction Act of 20128 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 488112th CongressSave Our Medical Devices Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 734112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the medical device tax, and for other purposes.8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 17112th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act8 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.
Covidien LP
6 filingsthrough 2009
Sally VastolaNixon Peabody LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff to Congressman Reynolds ; ; Executive Director of NRCC4 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas ReynoldsNixon Peabody LLPCovered position: Member of Congress4 filingsthrough 2015
Douglas DziakNixon Peabody LLPCovered position: Legis Director & Chief Counsel to Sen Voinovich ; ; Gen Counsel Senate Committee on Homeland Sec4 filingsthrough 2015
James E. ValleeNixon Peabody LLP4 filingsthrough 2015
William FrancoCovidien LP2 filingsthrough 2013
Craig BurtonCovidien LPCovered position: Staff, Sen. Bill First (98-04).1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 6 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
