22 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2013 · latest filed Jan 22, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
20 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
10 filings
$590K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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. 5872112th CongressSequestration Transparency Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
Joel JohnsonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Howard Metzenbaum ; ; Exec. Director, House Democratic Study Group ; ; Assistant Secretary of the Minority, U.S. Senate ; ; Staff Director, Democrat Leadership Committees ; ; Special Assistant to the President for Policy and ; ; Communications13 filingsthrough 2013
Brian Steven GastonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Member Services Director, Republican Conference Committee ; ; Chairman Dick Armey ; ; Republican Conference Committee Chairman John Boehner ; ; Policy Director, House Majority Leader Dick Armey ; ; Policy Director, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt ; ; Chief of Staff, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt ; ; Leadership Advisor, Rep. Roy Blunt13 filingsthrough 2013
Robert Wesley HarrisFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Staff Assistant, Rep. Frank Ballance ; ; Special Assistant, Rep. Frank Ballance ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. G.K. Butterfield ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. G.K. Butterfield ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. G.K. Butterfield ; ; House Floor Assistant, Rep. G.K. Butterfield
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: dendreon-corporation.
$590K
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.
8 filings
$480K 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
Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.
H.R. 325113th CongressNo Budget, No Pay Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 933113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 388113th CongressAmerican Family Economic Protection Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 8113th CongressReserved for the Speaker.1 filingthrough 2013
S.Con.Res. 58113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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 2023.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 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.
13 filingsthrough 2013
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst.12 filingsthrough 2013
Isaac A FordjourTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC12 filingsthrough 2013
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Congressman Billy Tauzin12 filingsthrough 2013
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg.12 filingsthrough 2013
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. On Finance;12 filingsthrough 2013
John MyersFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Sen. Arlen Spector10 filingsthrough 2013
Elizabeth EngelFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)8 filingsthrough 2013
Melanie NathansonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Graduate Intern, Senator Bob Graham ; ; Legislative Policy Assistant, Senator Bob Graham ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Sander Levin ; ; Senior Health Policy Advisor, Senator Bob Graham3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 9 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
