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
17 filings
$460K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Chris JonesBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ferguson; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. David McIntosh; Communications Director, House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee; Press Secretary, Rep. John Myers9 filingsthrough 2018
Adam HigginsBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Ferguson9 filingsthrough 2018
Tyler ThompsonBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Johnny Isakson; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Saxby Chambliss; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Zell Miller8 filingsthrough 2018
Chris Jones
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 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: edge-therapeutics-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.
115th Congress
Ellie's Law
2 filingsthrough 2018
S. 934115th CongressFDA Reauthorization Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
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.
Ferguson Strategies, LLC
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ferguson; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. David McIntosh; Communications Director, House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee; and Press Secretary, Rep. John Myers.
7 filingsthrough 2016
Kristine BlackwoodArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Dep. Dir. Cong'l Oversight, HHS (2010-15); Chief Counsel, Sen. Aging (2009-10); Investigative Counsel, House Energy & Commerce (2007-08); Attorney-Advisor, USDOJ Ofc of Leg Affairs (2005-07); HC Fraud Coord., USDOJ (2003-05); Asst US Atty (1994-2003)5 filingsthrough 2018
Pari ModyArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, HHS Office of General Counsel Public Health (2013)5 filingsthrough 2018
Eugenia PiersonArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: House Energy and Commerce Committee (2001-05)5 filingsthrough 2018
Adam HigginsFerguson Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Ferguson.5 filingsthrough 2016
