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.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
9 filings
$340K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 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 — 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.
S. 3101110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4872
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Diane MajorBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Assistant to Rep. Craig Thomas (90)10 filingsthrough 2011
Melissa SchulmanBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assistant to Rep. Thomas Manton (88)10 filingsthrough 2011
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-industry-group-purchasing-association.
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
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Bockorny Group, Inc.
Covered position: Leg. Assistant to Sen. Frank Lautenberg (91-96)
5 filingsthrough 2009
Curtis RooneyHealth Industry Group Purchasing AssociationCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
David BockornyHealth Industry Group Purchasing Association1 filingthrough 2008
Diane MajorHealth Industry Group Purchasing AssociationCovered position: Staff Assistant to Rep. Craig Thomas (90)1 filingthrough 2008
Melissa SchulmanHealth Industry Group Purchasing AssociationCovered position: Leg. Assistant to Rep. Thomas Manton (88)1 filingthrough 2008
Alexander David LurieHealth Industry Group Purchasing AssociationCovered position: Leg. Assistant to Sen. Frank Lautenberg (91-96)1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
