9 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2012 · latest filed Jan 22, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$180K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$180K
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.
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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$140K 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 — 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. 1894111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 769111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2020112th CongressPreservation of Access to Osteoporosis Testing for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
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: general-electric-healthcare.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Preservation of Access to Osteoporosis Testing for Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2011
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4994112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the rate of duty on certain leathered footwear for men.1 filingthrough 2011
S. 769112th CongressVETS Dogs Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3793111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
11 filings
through 2012
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Smith5 filingsthrough 2012
Catherine FinleyCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Sr. Health Policy Advisor, Senator Gordon SmithSr. Health Policy Advisor, Senator Olympia SnoweLegislative Correspondent, Senator DeWine1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 3 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
