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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$290K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
7 filings
$290K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 805111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5440111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jennifer Rachel LeibHealthfutures, LLC8 filingsthrough 2011
Frankie L TrullPolicy Directions Inc.7 filingsthrough 2012
Dale W MoorePolicy Directions Inc.Covered position: 1989-91 Rep. Pat Roberts, Leg. Assistant, 1991-96 House Ag Committee, Leg. Director, Minority/Majority, 2001-01/19/09 USDA, Chief of Staff to, Sec. of Agriculture6 filingsthrough 2012
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: life-technologies.
fees reported
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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.
FOO
7 filings
$100K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$10K 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.
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 5116111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1649111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
2 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 1 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
