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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
69 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
69 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 186 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 763113th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.10 filingsthrough 2014
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance72 filingsthrough 2026
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.71 filingsthrough 2025
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance; Staff Dir., Senate Aging Cmte.; Leg. Asst., Congressman Billy Tauzin58 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: elevance-health-inc-f-k-a-anthem-inc-wellpoint-inc.
67 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
48 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
7 filings
$630K on those filings
Veterans
VET
7 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
American Job Protection Act
10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 603113th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1839116th CongressMedicaid Services Investment and Accountability Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 259116th CongressMedicaid Extenders Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 172116th CongressHealth Insurance Tax Relief Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 246115th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 870115th CongressCreating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1021114th CongressProtecting the Integrity of Medicare Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1470114th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
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.
Elizabeth T Murray
Tarplin, Downs & Young, LLC
Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham
51 filingsthrough 2026
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Majority Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Committee; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner46 filingsthrough 2026
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Counselor to the Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept of Justice; Spec Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept of Justice; Counsel and LA, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun36 filingsthrough 2025
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Health, W&M Cmte; Sr. Policy Advisor, Majority Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Majority Whip McCarthy; Professional Staff, Republican Study Cmte.; Leg. Aid, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price33 filingsthrough 2026
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS30 filingsthrough 2015
Isaac A FordjourTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC21 filingsthrough 2014
Kimberly Lynn BrandtTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel - Senate Cmte. on Finance18 filingsthrough 2024
Peter FiseTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform14 filingsthrough 2026
Laura FriedelTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee11 filingsthrough 2025
Parick Braerton CarrollTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg Asst. Rep. Ray LaHood, Leg Dir. Rep. Kevin Yoder, PSM Senate Appropriations Cmte.6 filingsthrough 2025
Margaret JosephTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.4 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 13 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
