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: medco-health-solutions-inc.
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.
18 filings
$9M on those filings
Postal
POS
3 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$1.1M 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.
8 filings
through 2008
H.R. 1956110th CongressPatient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2567110th CongressMedicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2914110th CongressMedicare IVIG Access Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3800110th CongressPromoting Health Information Technology Act8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5629110th CongressPathway for Biosimilars Act8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 316110th CongressPreserve Access to Affordable Generics Act8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1204111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1474110th CongressFair and Speedy Treatment (FAST) of Medicare Prescription Drug Claims Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3090110th CongressPatient and Pharmacy Protection Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3140110th CongressSaving Our Community Pharmacies Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3193110th CongressAccess to Community Pharmacy Preservation Act of 20077 filingsthrough 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.
Ryan SadlerMedco Health Solutions, Inc
6 filingsthrough 2012
Lillian Verne GermanMedco Health Solutions, IncCovered position: senior counsel, House Judiciary Committee6 filingsthrough 2012
Bill HeadMedco Health Solutions, Inc6 filingsthrough 2009
Michael PollardMichael PollardCovered position: Consultant, Federal Policy and Regulation6 filingsthrough 2009
Barbara W CosgriffMedco Health Solutions, Inc5 filingsthrough 2011
Allyson BlandfordMedco Health Solutions, IncCovered position: Professional Staff Member (2002-2007)5 filingsthrough 2009
