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.
Health Issues
HCR
55 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
32 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2709110th CongressTo extend the minimum wage index established by regulation for each all-urban State under the Medicare inpatient hospital prospective payment system.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter46 filingsthrough 2020
Mary O'Dea Ahearn AllenAcg Advocacy24 filingsthrough 2021
James SmithAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Peter Deutsch17 filingsthrough 2015
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB5 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 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: highmark-health.
BUD
10 filings
$300K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$100K 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.
110th Congress
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
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.
through 2022
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen5 filingsthrough 2022
Tobias RodillAcg Advocacy5 filingsthrough 2009
DAVID F PEARCE jrAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Amo Houghton; Legislative Counsel, Representative Michael Cast3 filingsthrough 2015
