16 filings from 3 registrants · 2020–2023 · latest filed Feb 23, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$730K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$730K
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
15 filings
$730K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6930116th CongressMADE in America Act of 20202 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7610116th CongressMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2020
Andrew MckechnieTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Finance Committee; Legislative Assistant, Senator Norm Coleman; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Ramstad; Bipartisan Medical Technology Caucus11 filingsthrough 2022
Kristen HarperTiber Creek Group11 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew LeffingwellTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of Member Services Coalitions, House Appropriations Cmte.; CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Deputy CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Projects Director/Press Secretary, Rep. Mark Kirk11 filingsthrough 2022
James HeimbachTiber Creek Group Special Asst. to the President for Leg. Affairs (2009-2011); Chief of Staff, Sen. Sherrod Brown (2007-2009); Office of Leg & Intergovernmental Affairs, FCC (1999-2001)
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: emd-millipore.
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.
BUD
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
2 filings
$70K 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.
116th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
1 filingthrough 2020
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.
Covered position:
6 filingsthrough 2022
Paul EdattelTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Policy Assistant, Office of the Speaker; Professional Staff Member for the Majority at the House Energy & Commerce Committee; Legislative Assistant & Legislative Director, Rep. John Shadegg4 filingsthrough 2023
Jeff LucasTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senator Bill Cassidy; Legislative Assistant/Sr. Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent, Representative Larry Bucshon4 filingsthrough 2023
Taylor SextonTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response, HHS; Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Legislation, HHS; Health Care Policy Fellow, Representative Michael Burgess4 filingsthrough 2023
Ted LehmanTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Tillis; Senate Judiciary Committee-Counsel, then Chief Counsel for Nominations and Senior Counsel; Senate Judiciary Committee-Staff Assistant and Legislative Assistant4 filingsthrough 2023
Gary HeimbergCovington & Burling LLP4 filingsthrough 2021
John Kirkland TwomeyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, HHS Office of the Asst. Sec. for Legislation (2019-2021); Policy Adviser, HHS (2017-2019); Special Asst., Office of the Secretary, HHS (2017); Staff Assistant, Rep. Tom Price (2015-2017); Intern, Rep. Doug Collins (2015)3 filingsthrough 2022
Daniel M ToddTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Health Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Special Assistant, Office of Admin. Ct. - Medicare & Medicaid1 filingthrough 2023
Nicholas UehleckeTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Professional Staff/Sr. Legislative Assistant, House Ways and Means Subcommittee1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 11 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
