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: ehealth-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.
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
2 filings
$100K 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.
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.
15 filingsthrough 2020
Scott WeaverWiley Rein LLP13 filingsthrough 2014
Matthew SchlappCove StrategiesCovered position: Political Director/Deputy Political Director, White House; Chief of Staff, Representative Todd Tiahrt10 filingsthrough 2020
Stephen KhoAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld10 filingsthrough 2014
Brian Arthur PomperAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Ch Intl Trade Cnsl, Intl Trade Cnsl, Senate Fin10 filingsthrough 2014
Lanny J DavisLanny J. Davis & Associates, LLCCovered position: Special Counsel to President Clinton; Member Privacy andCivil Liberties Oversight Board5 filingsthrough 2014
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)5 filingsthrough 2010
David LugarQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)5 filingsthrough 2010
Jack QuinnQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Counsel Pres Clinton, CoS Vice Pres Gore5 filingsthrough 2010
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats5 filingsthrough 2010
Thomas BarkerFoley Hoag LLP4 filingsthrough 2015
Nicolas MadurosQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: AsstHRDoorkeeper,InternLehman,InternEOP4 filingsthrough 2010
