Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Laboratory Products Association
Virginia
31 filings from 3 registrants · 2019–2026 · latest filed Jul 1, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$660K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$660K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$660K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
15 filings
$290K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2617 117th CongressConsolidated Appropriations Act, 20231 filingthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- ROBERT L SMITH ii Mercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: January 2003 - September 2007, District Director to U.S. Congressman Steven R. Rothman (D- NJ)16 filingsthrough 2022
- Anthony Hobbs Platinum Advisors DC, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director - Rep. Carol Shea-Porter13 filingsthrough 2025
- Erik Vincent Huey Platinum Advisors DC, LLC13 filingsthrough 2025
- ROBERT L SMITH ii Platinum Advisors DC, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide - Rep. Joel Hefley, Legislative Director - Rep. Wes Watkins
The filings
The 20 most recent of 31 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: laboratory-products-association.