Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
First Candle
Maryland
25 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jul 17, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$150K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$150K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
16 filings
$150K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1037 112th CongressStillbirth Awareness and Research Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
- H.R. 5979 110th CongressStillbirth Awareness and Research Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- William Applegate Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP13 filingsthrough 2013
- Christopher Rorick Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide, Rep. Tom Tancredo13 filingsthrough 2013
- C Michael Fulton Golinharris4 filingsthrough 2008
- Marianne Adezio Myers Golinharris4 filingsthrough 2008
- David Russell Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Science/Commerce/Transportation
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: first-candle.