27 filings from 4 registrants · 2014–2018 · latest filed May 6, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$410K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$230K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$180K
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.
Education
EDU
14 filings
$140K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$243K 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.
H.R. 1312114th CongressNational Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 898114th CongressNational Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 20157 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: illinois-college-of-optometry.
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
113th Congress
National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2013
3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 855113th CongressOptometric Equity in Medicaid Act1 filingthrough 2014
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.
3 filings
through 2014
Christopher SagelyThe Normandy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Boozman3 filingsthrough 2014
