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
44 filings
$1M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
7 filings
$420K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2245112th CongressPreserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3187112th CongressFood and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Mark F LindsayBell & Lindsay, Inc.Covered position: US House Staff22 filingsthrough 2016
Raymond McgrathDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.Covered position: Member of Congress, 1980-199222 filingsthrough 2015
Thomas J DowneyDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.Covered position: Member of Congress 1974-199222 filingsthrough 2015
Sloan RappoportDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr Policy Advisor, Sec'y of Commerce 2001-2003
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: medassets.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
3 filings
through 2010
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th 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.
14 filingsthrough 2014
Katharine Duarte KratovilLaw Offices of Frederick H. Graefe, PLLC8 filingsthrough 2011
Frederick H GraefeLaw Offices of Frederick H. Graefe, PLLC8 filingsthrough 2011
James Spenser FitzellaDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2015
John Peter OlingerDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2015
Michael LoucksSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP3 filingsthrough 2014
