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: cystic-fibrosis-foundation.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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
59 filings
$8.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
57 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Insurance
INS
37 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
9 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$760K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
3 filings
$460K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$300K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$200K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 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.
S. 350117th CongressNewborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2022
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.
Covered position: Staff Director, Senate Special Aging Committee; Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Smith; Legislative Asst, Sen. Snowe
36 filingsthrough 2026
David ElinCystic Fibrosis FoundationCovered position: NONE33 filingsthrough 2026
Jason RanvilleCystic Fibrosis Foundation23 filingsthrough 2013
Daniel CramerCystic Fibrosis FoundationCovered position: n/a21 filingsthrough 2021
Jonathan DanielsCystic Fibrosis FoundationCovered position: n/a19 filingsthrough 2022
Eric ChamberlainCystic Fibrosis Foundation18 filingsthrough 2014
