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
19 filings
$810K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
13 filings
$540K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 8295117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20233 filingsthrough 2022
S. 4659117th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20232 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kevin Michael O'NeillArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP21 filingsthrough 2023
Kristine BlackwoodArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Deputy Dir. for Cong. Oversight, HHS (2010-15); Chief Counsel, Senate Aging (09-10); Investigative Counsel, House E&C (07-08); Attorney-Advisor, DOJ Leg Affairs (05-07); Healthcare Fraud Coordinator, DOJ (03-05); AUSA, Central District CA (94-03)20 filingsthrough 2023
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: lieber-institute-for-brain-development.
8 filings
$400K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
2 filings
$100K 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.
14 filings
through 2019
Eugenia PiersonArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Clerk, House Energy and Commerce Committee (2001-2005)8 filingsthrough 2023
Casey BrouhardArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Health Counsel, Rep. Burgess (2019-2020); Intern, House Energy & Commerce Committee (2019)7 filingsthrough 2023
Sonja NesbitArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Legislation, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (2013-2016); Deputy Staff Director, Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, U.S. House of Representatives (2002-2013)4 filingsthrough 2023
Haley MeyersArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, DOJ Consumer Protection Branch (2016); Intern, House Energy and Commerce Committee (2015); Intern, Rep. McCarthy (2015)4 filingsthrough 2018
Cj MahlerArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Intern, Sen. Corker (2016); Intern, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (2017); Intern, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (2018)3 filingsthrough 2019
