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.
Health Issues
HCR
70 filings
$15.7M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
70 filings
$15.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 250 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.10 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 247119th CongressHealth Care Affordability Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2026
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-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.
68 filings
$15.1M on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
51 filings
$12.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
20 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$270K 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.
119th Congress
Health Care Affordability Act of 2025
8 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1843118th CongressTelehealth Expansion Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1001118th CongressTelehealth Expansion Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 127118th CongressPharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 866118th CongressAmerican Innovation and Jobs Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 246115th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1105119th CongressNo UPCODE Act7 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1488118th CongressAffordable Insulin Now Act7 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 3561118th CongressPATIENT Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1339118th CongressPharmacy Benefit Manager Reform Act7 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1869118th CongressSITE Act7 filingsthrough 2024
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.
