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.
Pharmacy
PHA
70 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
54 filings
$4M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 252 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2181117th CongressAffordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act10 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 768117th CongressBlock, Report, And Suspend Suspicious Shipments Act of 202110 filingsthrough 2022
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Rob PortmanR-Ohio
Bills: S. 1260
36 filings
9 lobbyists
Roy BluntR-Missouri
Bills: S. 1260
32 filings
8 lobbyists
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
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.76 filingsthrough 2026
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 Finance75 filingsthrough 2026
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance; Staff Dir., Senate Aging Cmte.; Leg. Asst., Congressman Billy Tauzin60 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: healthcare-distribution-alliance-healthcare-distribution-managment-assn.
43 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
40 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
35 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$160K 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.
117th Congress
Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 2021
10 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1285113th CongressTo amend the Controlled Substances Act to make any substance containing hydrocodone a schedule II drug.10 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1416113th CongressCancer Patient Protection Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 800113th CongressTo amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude customary prompt pay discounts from manufacturers to wholesalers from the average sales price for drugs and biologicals under Medicare.10 filingsthrough 2014
S. 348113th CongressPrescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 621113th CongressSafe Prescribing Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1478116th CongressAffordable Insulin Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 447116th CongressAffordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act9 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 478116th CongressSafe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 61116th CongressSafe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 658116th CongressADAPT Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 844116th CongressShort on Competition Act9 filingsthrough 2020
S. 97116th CongressAffordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act9 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.
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Elizabeth T Murray
Tarplin, Downs & Young, LLC
Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham
53 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 Boehner48 filingsthrough 2026
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-Braun41 filingsthrough 2026
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Health, W&M Cmte; Sr. Policy Advisor, Majority Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Majority Whip McCarthy; Professional Staff, Republican Study Cmte.; Leg. Aid, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price35 filingsthrough 2026
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS30 filingsthrough 2015
Isaac A FordjourTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC21 filingsthrough 2014
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
Margaret JosephTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.17 filingsthrough 2026
Peter FiseTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform15 filingsthrough 2026
Laura FriedelTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee12 filingsthrough 2025
Parick Braerton CarrollTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg Asst. Rep. Ray LaHood, Leg Dir. Rep. Kevin Yoder, PSM Senate Appropriations Cmte.10 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 13 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
