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: gilead-sciences-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.
BUD
115 filings
$76.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
105 filings
$78.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
68 filings
$77.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
53 filings
$58M on those filings
Veterans
VET
41 filings
$33.3M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
20 filings
$8.7M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
13 filings
$10.8M on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
10 filings
$9.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
9 filings
$6.8M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
4 filings
$3.1M 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.
116th Congress
Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 2019
18 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3117th CongressElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act15 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 259116th CongressMedicaid Extenders Act of 201914 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1287114th CongressViral Hepatitis Testing Act of 201514 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4378116th CongressContinuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 201911 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5378118th CongressLower Costs, More Transparency Act10 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Farragut Partners LLP
Covered position: Prof Staff on E&C Cmte LA Rep Whitfield and Intern Devin Nunes
43 filingsthrough 2026
Sarah WalterFarragut Partners LLPCovered position: Former Legislative Director/Chief Counsel, Sen. John Breaux43 filingsthrough 2026
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.33 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance33 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth T MurrayTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham33 filingsthrough 2026
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Counsel, Sen. Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Maj. Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Cmte.; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner33 filingsthrough 2026
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Counselor to the Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept of Justice; Spec Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept of Justice; Counsel and LA, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun33 filingsthrough 2026
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Health, W&M Cmte; Sr. Policy Advisor, Majority Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Majority Whip McCarthy; Professional Staff, Republican Study Cmte.; Leg. Aid, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price33 filingsthrough 2026
Michael D BoydGilead Sciences, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Kolbe33 filingsthrough 2026
Darren WillcoxW Strategies, LLCCovered position: Asst. for Policy, Speaker Dennis Hastert; Admin. Asst., Legislative Director, Legislative Asst., Cong. Porter Goss; House Rules Comm. Assoc., Subcommittee Staff Director31 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey J KimbellJeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates, Inc.30 filingsthrough 2026
Keith StuddardJeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Marsha Blackburn30 filingsthrough 2026
John R RayJeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Kelly30 filingsthrough 2026
Anna GriffinGilead Sciences, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Cass Ballenger; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Howard Coble; Legislative Director, Rep. Howard Coble29 filingsthrough 2026
John HerzogJeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates, Inc.Covered position: Health Aide, Sen. Lamar Alexander; Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, Executive Office of the President28 filingsthrough 2026
David RudloffJeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates, Inc.28 filingsthrough 2026
Barrett ThornhillForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Mike Crapo (2003-2006); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Pat Toomey (2002-2003); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Charlie Norwood (2001-2002)28 filingsthrough 2026
Kenneth Lee HodgeJeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates, Inc.28 filingsthrough 2026
Derrick M WhiteForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Communications Director, Sen. Orrin Hatch (2000-2001)27 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 133 of 162 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
