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: davita.
$690K
fees reported
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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.
19 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
15 filings
$1M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
15 filings
$1M on those filings
Veterans
VET
14 filings
$690K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$790K 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.
113th Congress
Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2013
5 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S.Con.Res. 13111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3520118th CongressVeteran Care Improvement Act of 20234 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1776111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1796111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 691110th CongressKidney Care Quality and Education Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
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:
10 filingsthrough 2012
Stephen Douglas WardVan Heuvelen Strategies, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Bingaman9 filingsthrough 2013
