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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
53 filings
$490K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
50 filings
$490K 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
The 15 most-cited of 21 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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: international-foundation-for-gastrointestinal-disorders-frmrly-intl-fdtn-fun.
spend on filings that named this issue
7 filings
through 2014
H.R. 1859111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3396117th CongressExtinction Prevention Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1080112th CongressPediatric Research Consortia Establishment Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2239112th CongressFunctional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders Research Enhancement Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3396116th CongressFunctional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders Research Enhancement Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.Res. 1309111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3461112th CongressNational Pediatric Research Network Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4732111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1473112th CongressDepartment of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1859112th CongressHousing Finance Reform Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
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.
9 filingsthrough 2018
Dane ChristiansenHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant8 filingsthrough 2022
Peter HerzogHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant7 filingsthrough 2019
Priyanka SurioHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant7 filingsthrough 2016
Terrell BaptisteHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant7 filingsthrough 2014
Ginger ParkHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant5 filingsthrough 2011
Meaghan PilarcikHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant2 filingsthrough 2012
Lori OppenheimerHealth and Medicine CounselCovered position: Legislative Consultant2 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 11 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
