101 filings from 6 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 23, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$17.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$13.1M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4.2M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
95 filings
$16.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
79 filings
$16.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 64 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 763113th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.22 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.16 filingsthrough 2016
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-net-inc.
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.
TAX
41 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Insurance
INS
22 filings
$910K on those filings
Veterans
VET
8 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$1.5M 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.
113th Congress
To amend section 9010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to delay the application of the health insurance provider annual fee until 2016 and to provide a process to return to consumers any amounts attributable to the expected application of the annual fee to 2014 or 2015.
14 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1370112th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.13 filingsthrough 2012
S. 603113th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
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.7 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6331110th CongressMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
S. 183114th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3812113th CongressNo Bailouts for Insurance Industry Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2676112th CongressSmall Business Health Relief Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1049112th CongressSmall Business Health Relief Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1880112th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2012
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.
JAMES HAWKINS iii
Alpine Group Partners, LLC.
Covered position: Health Policy Advisor, Senate HELP Committee
21 filingsthrough 2016
Daniel P MeyerThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Speaker Newt Gingrich ; ; Asst. to President,Legis.Affairs, Pres. GW Bush20 filingsthrough 2016
Howard CohenFederal Health Counsel, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel Committee on Energy and Commerce15 filingsthrough 2016
Steven ChamplinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: ExecFlrAsst, H. Maj. Whip; ExecDir, H.DemCauc.13 filingsthrough 2015
Vin WeberClark & WeinstockCovered position: Member of Congress (MN)11 filingsthrough 2011
Michael BermanThe Duberstein Group Inc.4 filingsthrough 2012
Barry BrownAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Burgess & Rep. Kay Granger; Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady2 filingsthrough 2016
Lauren BazelAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Senior Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. John Kerry; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. William Cowan2 filingsthrough 2016
JOSEPH MICHAEL HOGAN jrAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Ben Nelson2 filingsthrough 2016
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 20 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
