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: health-care-service-corporation.
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.
MMM
60 filings
$2.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$370K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
2 filings
$120K 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
Lower Health Care Costs Act
10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20179 filingsthrough 2018
S.Con.Res. 5117th CongressA concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2022 through 2030.8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1010116th CongressTo provide that the rule entitled "Short-Term, Limited Duration Insurance" shall have no force or effect.8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1386116th CongressENROLL Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1389116th CongressSafe Home Act of 20198 filingsthrough 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.
Capitol Counsel LLC
46 filingsthrough 2019
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Jct: Associate Deputy Chief of Staff43 filingsthrough 2025
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 Finance39 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 Graham39 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 Boehner39 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.36 filingsthrough 2025
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-Braun36 filingsthrough 2025
Denise Henry MorriseyCapitol Counsel LLC36 filingsthrough 2017
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance; Staff Dir., Senate Aging Cmte.; Leg. Asst., Congressman Billy Tauzin24 filingsthrough 2022
Melissa BartlettChamber Hill StrategiesCovered position: Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce23 filingsthrough 2022
Sara FrankoCapitol Counsel LLC22 filingsthrough 2014
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)22 filingsthrough 2013
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)22 filingsthrough 2013
Luke HatzisCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Floor Assistant, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert21 filingsthrough 2018
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Rep. Nick Smith21 filingsthrough 2016
Kimberly Lynn BrandtTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel - Senate Cmte. on Finance18 filingsthrough 2024
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.16 filingsthrough 2019
Martin B. GoldCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Floor Advisor & Counsel, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist16 filingsthrough 2018
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert16 filingsthrough 2018
Lawrence WillcoxCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir., Senate Republican Policy Committee; Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Kyl; Tax Counsel, Rep. Sam Johnson.14 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 37 of 68 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
