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.
Mitch VidovichIndependence Blue Cross, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Pat Toomey. District Director, Office of Senator Pat Toomey. (2011-2015)53 filingsthrough 2026
Steven R PhillipsDla Piper LLP (US)26 filingsthrough 2025
Timothy W JenkinsBallard Spahr LLP23 filingsthrough 2026
Jovi HammerIndependence Blue Cross, LLC18 filingsthrough 2026
Jamie Alexei GregorianDla Piper LLP (US)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 93 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: independence-blue-cross-llc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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
8 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$60K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$370K on those filings
Veterans
VET
1 filing
$160K on those filings
Insurance
INS
1 filing
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.
116th Congress
Lower Health Care Costs Act
10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3590114th CongressHalt Tax Increases on the Middle Class and Seniors Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3173117th CongressImproving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 20225 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1384116th CongressMedicare for All Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
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.
16 filingsthrough 2025
Maria TripplaarBallard Spahr LLPCovered position: Staff Dir. & Chief Counsel, Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir., Comm on Veterans Affairs, House of Rep; Staff Dir. & Counsel, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, Comm. on Veterans' Affairs, House of Rep.14 filingsthrough 2026
Melissa GierachDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Charles Boustany; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Dennis Ross; Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. John Sullivan; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Cliff Stearns; Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher7 filingsthrough 2020
Charles DentDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Member of Congress7 filingsthrough 2020
Nathaniel James BellDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Senior Legislative Assistant to Rep. Robert Andrews3 filingsthrough 2019
Andrew KentDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Charles W. Dent; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Tom Marino; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Louie Gohmert3 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
