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: emd-serono-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.
TAX
124 filings
$36M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
118 filings
$32M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
61 filings
$24.2M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
59 filings
$22.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
55 filings
$16.1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
37 filings
$12.8M on those filings
Defense
DEF
34 filings
$14.4M on those filings
Veterans
VET
30 filings
$15.9M on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
20 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
14 filings
$8.7M 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
Family Act of 2013
24 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3522112th CongressFamily Act of 201121 filingsthrough 2012
S. 965112th CongressFamily Act of 201119 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3116th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act18 filingsthrough 2020
S. 2543116th CongressPrescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 201918 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2673118th CongressAmerican Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 202315 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1967118th CongressPBM Act15 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2880118th CongressProtecting Patients Against PBM Abuses Act14 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5378118th CongressLower Costs, More Transparency Act13 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1542118th CongressDRUG Act13 filingsthrough 2024
S. 864119th CongressHELP Copays Act12 filingsthrough 2026
S. 1339118th CongressPharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act12 filingsthrough 2024
S. 469115th CongressAffordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act12 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.
Covered position: N/A
40 filingsthrough 2026
John Michael GonzalezTiber Creek Group38 filingsthrough 2026
Daniel M ToddTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Health Counsel, Senate Finance Committee; Special Assistant, Office of Admin. Ctr. - Medicare & Medicaid35 filingsthrough 2026
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 Shadegg34 filingsthrough 2026
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.26 filingsthrough 2016
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director for Rep. Joe Baca25 filingsthrough 2016
Ann JablonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Legislative Director, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal; Executive/ Legislative Assistant, Rep. Richard E. Neal.24 filingsthrough 2026
Robert DiamondCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, President Barack Obama.24 filingsthrough 2026
Michael RuggieroEmd Serono, Inc.Covered position: N/A23 filingsthrough 2017
Corey MalmgrenTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Sen. Bill Nelson, Deputy Legislative Director & Health Counsel (2015-2018); Rep. Sandy Levin, Legislative Counsel (2013-2015), Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant (2008-2009); House Committee on Ways and Means, Legal Clerk/Intern (2010)21 filingsthrough 2026
Mark WilliamsFerox StrategiesCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Conaway // Chief of Staff, Rep. Todd Rokita // Dep. Chief of Staff/Leg. Director, Rep. Sam Johnson.20 filingsthrough 2026
Nicholas UehleckeTodd Strategy GroupCovered position: Senior Advisor, Dept. of Health and Human Services; Professional Staff/Sr. Legislative Assistant, House Ways and Means Subcommittee14 filingsthrough 2024
