30 filings from 2 registrants · 2009–2018 · latest filed Oct 15, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.9M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
28 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$75K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 388113th CongressAmerican Family Economic Protection Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
Richard Joseph TarplinTarplin Strategies LLCCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Legislation/HHS; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation/HHS; Staff Director, Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families24 filingsthrough 2015
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: lincare-holdings-inc.
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.
1 filing
$75K 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.
113th Congress
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.
S. 148114th CongressMedicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Improvement Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
S. 810114th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4015113th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20144 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2000113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3220111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3790111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4229115th CongressProtecting HOME Access Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
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 2018
Covered positions · 1 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
