61 filings from 6 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Feb 12, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3M
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: cubist-pharmaceuticals-inc.
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.
30 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
25 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
10 filings
$590K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$180K 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.
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.6 filingsthrough 2013
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.6 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5651112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Reform Act of 20126 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3187112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 574111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 254111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3742113th CongressAntibiotic Development to Advance Patient Treatment Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4302113th CongressProtecting Access to Medicare Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
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 2022.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2400111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
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.
through 2014
Tracy SpicerAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Political Director, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Special Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Staff Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy13 filingsthrough 2014
Mary Beth Savary TaylorThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Legislative Assistant13 filingsthrough 2014
Elizabeth Macdonald BarnettAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Speechwriter, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Staff Assistant, Sen. Energy/Natural Resource Cmte13 filingsthrough 2014
Thomas B SparkmanPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Intern, Senate HELP Committee13 filingsthrough 2012
Sharon CohenSlc Health Strategies, LLC9 filingsthrough 2014
Donni TurnerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Richard Durbin8 filingsthrough 2010
Doug BadgerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Economic PolicyUS Senate, Assistant Majority Leader, Chief of StaffUS Senate Rep. Policy Cmte, Staff Director / Asst. Staff DirUS Dept of HHS, Dep. Asst. Sec. for Human Dev. Svcs.Soc. Sec. Admin, Office of Leg. & Reg. Policy, Acting Dir.6 filingsthrough 2012
Barrett ThornhillEast End Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2012
Michael Paul WoodyEast End Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2012
David Thomson MohlerEast End Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2012
Kelly Childress LangeEast End Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2012
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Dir., House Approps. Committee6 filingsthrough 2010
