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.
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: independent-pharmacy-cooperative.
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.
24 filings
$960K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$230K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$80K 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.
118th Congress
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2023
13 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 592115th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act12 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 592114th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act12 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 793114th CongressEnsuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 201512 filingsthrough 2016
S. 927119th CongressProtecting Pharmacies in Medicaid Act11 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5378118th CongressLower Costs, More Transparency Act11 filingsthrough 2024
S. 109115th CongressPharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4317119th CongressPBM Reform Act of 20258 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1613118th CongressDrug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 803116th CongressImproving Transparency and Accuracy in Medicare Part D Spending Act8 filingsthrough 2020
S. 988116th CongressImproving Transparency and Accuracy in Medicare Part D Spending Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1038115th CongressImproving Transparency and Accuracy in Medicare Part D Spending Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 413115th CongressImproving Transparency and Accuracy in Medicare Part D Spending Act8 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Covered position:
29 filingsthrough 2023
Jeffrey SadoskyForbes-TateCovered position: November 10 - October 13 with Senator Rob Portman December 08 - April 10 with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison January 05 - March 06 with Senator Mike DeWine29 filingsthrough 2023
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Stupak, 1993-1994 Leg Director, Rep. Kind, 1999-2002 Chief of Staff, Rep. Kind, 2003-200928 filingsthrough 2025
Jeffrey StrunkForbes-TateCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, House Speaker Boehner (2010-2012) Floor Assistant, House Speaker Boehner (2007-2010) Legislative Assistant, John Boehner (2006-2007) Staff Member, Pat Tiberi (2004-2006)22 filingsthrough 2021
Franklyn E. SteinbergForbes-Tate19 filingsthrough 2021
Kristina DunklinForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Susan Brooks (2018-2019); Legislative Director, Rep. David Valadao (2015-2018); Legislative Assistant, Rep. David Valadao (2014-2015)13 filingsthrough 2026
Michael Alexander WilliamsForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Lucy McBath (2021-2022); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lucy McBath (2019-2020); Legislative Aide, Sen. Brian Jones (2019); Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Brian Jones (2018-2019)12 filingsthrough 2026
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-Tate11 filingsthrough 2018
Jim DriscollIndependent Pharmacy Cooperative9 filingsthrough 2017
Paul DioguardiForbes-TateCovered position: Director, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (2009-2015); Chief of Staff, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Labor (1999-2001)4 filingsthrough 2024
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate2 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 8 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
