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
26 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
26 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S.Con.Res. 14117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1973119th CongressTreat and Reduce Obesity Act of 20255 filingsthrough 2026
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: eli-lilly-and-company-fka-lilly-usa-llc.
18 filings
$880K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$750K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$580K 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.
118th Congress
Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2023
5 filingsthrough 2024
S. 2407118th CongressTreat and Reduce Obesity Act of 20235 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4231119th CongressTreat and Reduce Obesity Act of 20254 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 6509119th CongressSAFE Drugs Act of 20253 filingsthrough 2026
S. 3794119th CongressSAFE Drugs Act of 20262 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.2 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 7658117th CongressTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reauthorize the Critical Path Public-Private Partnerships.2 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4348117th CongressFDASLA Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4535117th CongressFDASRA Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2022
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.
27 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee (2003); Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus (1999-2002)25 filingsthrough 2025
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Brian Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Brian Jones (2018-2019)16 filingsthrough 2026
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood (2001-2002)16 filingsthrough 2023
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight & Reform Committee (2016)10 filingsthrough 2022
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Rob Portman (2010-2013); Communications Director, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (2008-2010); Press Secretary, Sen. Mike DeWine (2005-2006)7 filingsthrough 2023
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate1 filingthrough 2020
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Speaker John Boehner (2010-2013); Floor Assistant, House Speaker John Boehner (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Rep. John Boehner (2006 -2010); Staff Member, Rep. Pat Tiberi, (2004-2006)1 filingthrough 2020
EDWARD C. RENO iiiForbes-Tate1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 10 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
