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: lifescan-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
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1 filing
$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.
110th Congress
Medicare Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2007
H.R. 6381110th CongressMedical Device Safety Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3144110th CongressMedicare DMEPOS Competitive Acquisition Reform Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5361110th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on plastic lamp-holder housings containing sockets.1 filingthrough 2008
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.
Jennifer L ButlerAlston & Bird LLP
5 filingsthrough 2009
Mark WellerDentons US LLP5 filingsthrough 2008
Jed PerryLifescan, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2008
JOHN FEORE iiiDentons US LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Mark MeissnerDentons US LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
JOHN R RUSSELL ivDentons US LLPCovered position: Dep. to the Chief of Staff, Rep. Hastert (R-IL)4 filingsthrough 2008
Colin RoskeyAlston & Bird LLP3 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 1 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
