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: fresenius-medical-care.
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.
22 filings
$1.1M 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.
110th Congress
Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1893110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1193110th CongressKidney Care Quality and Education Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 691110th CongressKidney Care Quality and Education Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1458115th CongressRAISE IT Act2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5506115th CongressTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for direct payment to physician assistants under the Medicare program for certain services furnished by such physician assistants.2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5659115th CongressVolcker Rule Relief Act of 20182 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 6115th CongressSUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act2 filingsthrough 2017
S. 3090115th CongressSave Voters Act2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 5506114th CongressTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a demonstration program to provide integrated care for Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5659114th CongressESRD Choice Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3090114th CongressDialysis PATIENT Demonstration Act of 20162 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.
Covered position:
28 filingsthrough 2017
Carolyn E SmithAlston & Bird LLP27 filingsthrough 2017
Regina Maria SherickAlston & Bird LLP22 filingsthrough 2017
