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.
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-corporation.
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.
BUD
19 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
19 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$980K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
11 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$740K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$410K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
5 filings
$490K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
4 filings
$190K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$90K 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.
9 filings
through 2010
H.R. 4614111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1599112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 250112th CongressJustice for All Reauthorization Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4954111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3607111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3805111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2085113th CongressDiagnostic Innovation Testing and Knowledge Advancement Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3005113th CongressMedical Testing Availability Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
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.
12 filingsthrough 2013
Drew CantorTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Sr. Comms. Advisor, Sen. Republican Conference10 filingsthrough 2012
Justin MccarthyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the President, Leg. Affairs9 filingsthrough 2012
Patricia Louise DeloatcheSidley Austin LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant; Rep. Mike Bilirakis6 filingsthrough 2012
Andrew MckechnieTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Bipartisan Medical Technology Caucus5 filingsthrough 2012
Steven A WolfeCardinal Point Partners5 filingsthrough 2011
