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
11 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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: grifols-inc.
TAX
4 filings
$1.4M 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.
112th Congress
Local Flexibility for Transit Assistance Act
1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4213112th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to require judges of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to reside within fifty miles of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2011
S. 1679112th CongressBudget Reform Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
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.
10 filings
through 2010
Alice Slayton ClarkSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Stephanie P HalesSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2010
John P FordSidley Austin LLPCovered position: Sr. Counsel, House Energy & Commerce4 filingsthrough 2009
Jennifer RazorSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
Patricia Louise DeloatcheSidley Austin LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant; Rep. Mike Bilirakis3 filingsthrough 2013
Perry E KnightSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A2 filingsthrough 2010
Erika SmithSidley Austin LLPCovered position: Professional Staff, Comm. Energy & Commerce1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 11 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
