19 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 21, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$400K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$400K
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.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
ALC
19 filings
$400K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
19 filings
$400K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 588110th CongressResident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Carol McdaidCapitol Decisions, Inc.19 filingsthrough 2013
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: hazelden-foundation.
6 filings
$190K 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.
H.R. 5392111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5466111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6409110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6983110th CongressPaul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3335110th CongressJobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 193111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 911111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1679111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 391111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 77111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
