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.
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.62 filingsthrough 2026
Tracy SpicerAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Political Director, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Special Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ; ; Staff Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy60 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance
The filings
The 20 most recent of 166 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: jazz-pharmaceuticals-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.
14 filings
$800K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
12 filings
$840K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$300K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$50K 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.
116th Congress
CREATES Act of 2019
14 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 2051115th CongressFAST Generics Act of 201712 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 8467118th CongressFarm, Food, and National Security Act of 20248 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 987116th CongressStrengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act8 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 7667117th CongressFood and Drug Amendments of 20227 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4348117th CongressFDASLA Act of 20227 filingsthrough 2022
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:
58 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth T MurrayTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham47 filingsthrough 2025
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance; Staff Dir., Senate Aging Cmte.; Leg. Asst., Congressman Billy Tauzin46 filingsthrough 2022
Charlotte Spears IvancicTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Majority Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Committee; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner42 filingsthrough 2025
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Counselor to the Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept of Justice; Spec Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept of Justice; Counsel and LA, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun35 filingsthrough 2025
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Health, W&M Cmte; Sr. Policy Advisor, Majority Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Majority Whip McCarthy; Professional Staff, Republican Study Cmte.; Leg. Aid, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price29 filingsthrough 2025
Karas GrossJazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Covered position: FDA - Associate Commissioner for Legislative Affairs (2019-20); House Rules Committee - Deputy Staff Director (2011-19); House Judiciary Committee - Deputy Parliamentarian (2008-11); House of Representatives - Sr. Legislative Assistant (2004-08)25 filingsthrough 2026
Virginia McmillinJazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Covered position: Special Assistant to the President (9/2018-12/2020); Health Policy Advisor, Senate Committee on HELP (1/2018-9/2019); Staff, Senate Committee on HELP (5/2012-1/2018)24 filingsthrough 2026
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS18 filingsthrough 2015
Mark BoltonJazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.17 filingsthrough 2026
Kimberly Lynn BrandtTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel - Senate Cmte. on Finance17 filingsthrough 2024
Roger R SzemrajOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: House Approps Comm; CoS Rep. Marcy Kaptur15 filingsthrough 2023
Margaret JosephTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.13 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth Macdonald BarnettAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Speechwriter, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ; ; Staff Assistant, Sen. Energy/Natural Resource Cmte13 filingsthrough 2015
Peter FiseTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform11 filingsthrough 2025
Laura FriedelTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee11 filingsthrough 2025
Parick Braerton CarrollTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg Asst. Rep. Ray LaHood, Leg Dir. Rep. Kevin Yoder, PSM Senate Appropriations Cmte.10 filingsthrough 2026
Amy TejralAvenue SolutionsCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Ben Nelson10 filingsthrough 2015
Isaac A FordjourTarplin, Downs & Young, LLC10 filingsthrough 2014
Darren WebbOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC8 filingsthrough 2020
Eden ShiferawOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC7 filingsthrough 2018
Greg D'AngeloThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: White House Office of Management and Budget, Associate Director of Health Programs; Senate Committee on the Budget (Sen. Gregg, Sen. Sessions, and Sen. Enzi), Professional Staff Member4 filingsthrough 2026
Brett BakerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Senators Crapo, Grassley, and Hatch)-Deputy Health Policy Director; Health Policy Dir.; Senior Policy Advsr; Policy Advisor. U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means (Reps. Camp and Ryan) Prof. Staff4 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew FuentesAvenue SolutionsCovered position: LA - Senate Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer; LA - Senate Democratic Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer; Legislative Aide - Sen. Chuck Schumer; Research Assistant - Senate Finance Committee (Sen. Ron Wyden)4 filingsthrough 2026
