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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
45 filings
$15.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
41 filings
$15.1M 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 — 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.
Erin PolakGrail, Inc. (Formerly Grail, LLC)31 filingsthrough 2026
Rodger CurrieGrail, Inc. (Formerly Grail, LLC)27 filingsthrough 2025
Timothy W JenkinsBallard Spahr LLP20 filingsthrough 2026
Maria TripplaarBallard Spahr LLPCovered position: Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir., Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir. & Counsel, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, Comm. on Veterans' Affairs, House of Rep.14 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 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: grail-inc-formerly-grail-llc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
119th Congress
Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
13 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1946117th CongressMedicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act of 202113 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1873117th CongressMedicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act of 202112 filingsthrough 2022
S. 2085118th CongressMedicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2022
S. 5051117th CongressFoster Youth and Driving Act1 filingthrough 2021
H.R. 8845116th CongressMedicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act of 20201 filingthrough 2020
S. 5051116th CongressMedicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act of 20201 filingthrough 2020
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.
Phylicia Woods
Grail, Inc. (Formerly Grail, LLC)
Covered position: Counsel-Former U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill; Health Counsel-Former U.S. Senator Clair McCaskill, Legislative Assistant & Legislative Correspondent- Former U.S. Congressman Russ Carnahan
14 filingsthrough 2024
Edward G RendellBallard Spahr LLP10 filingsthrough 2024
Juan MachadoGrail, Inc. (Formerly Grail, LLC)Covered position: Senior Health Advisor-Senate Finance Committee; Health Insurance Specialist/Program Analyst-Department of Health and Human Services8 filingsthrough 2021
Barbara Anne MenardGrail, Inc. (Formerly Grail, LLC)Covered position: Senior Executive Service-ARPA-H/HHS (Jan 2023-Apr 2025) Senior Executive Service-OMB/Executive Office of the President (Oct 2013-Jan 2023) Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Chris Dodd (Sept 2008-July 2010)5 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
