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.
Raissa H DownsTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Prin. Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Employment, Sen. HELP Cmte.48 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer B YoungTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS; Cmte. Staff, House Cmte. on Ways and Means; Cmte. Staff, Sen. Cmte. on Finance48 filingsthrough 2026
Elizabeth T MurrayTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Legislative Asst. for Rep. Mike Thompson, Rep. Bob Matsui, and Senator Bob Graham48 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
The 20 most recent of 88 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: merck.
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.
69 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
47 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
20 filings
$740K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
15 filings
$720K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$470K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
12 filings
$600K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
5 filings
$210K 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.
115th Congress
Lower Drug Costs through Competition Act
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 469115th CongressAffordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 637115th CongressCreating Transparency to Have Drug Rebates Unlocked (C-THRU) Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 771115th CongressImproving Access To Affordable Prescription Drugs Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 27114th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1470114th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2114th CongressMedicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 512114th CongressDISARM Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 810114th CongressSGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20217 filingsthrough 2021
S. 1416116th CongressAffordable Prescriptions for Patients Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Charlotte Spears Ivancic
Tarplin, Downs & Young, LLC
Covered position: Legislative Counsel, Senator Jim DeMint; Health Counsel, Majority Leader Bill Frist; Counsel and Budget Analyst, House Budget Committee; Asst. to the Speaker for Policy, Speaker John Boehner
45 filingsthrough 2026
Pamela SmithTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. Tom Harkin; Dep. Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Staff Dir., Senate HELP Cmte; Counselor to the Asst. AG, Civil Div., Dept of Justice; Spec Counsel, Ofc of Leg. Affairs, Dept of Justice; Counsel and LA, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun38 filingsthrough 2026
Michelle P EastonTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Chief Health Counsel, Sen. Cmte. on Finance; Staff Dir., Senate Aging Cmte.; Leg. Asst., Congressman Billy Tauzin34 filingsthrough 2022
Emily H MurryTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir., Sub. Cmte. on Health, W&M Cmte; Sr. Policy Advisor, Majority Leader McCarthy; Policy Advisor, Majority Whip McCarthy; Professional Staff, Republican Study Cmte.; Leg. Aid, Rep. Ken Calvert; Leg. Asst., Rep. Tom Price32 filingsthrough 2026
Kimberly Lynn BrandtTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sr. Counsel and Dir. External Affairs - HHS OIG; Prin. Dep. Administrator for Policy and Operations and Dir. of Medicare Program Integrity - CMS; Chief Oversight and General Counsel - Senate Cmte. on Finance17 filingsthrough 2024
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd17 filingsthrough 2021
Margaret JosephTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: CoS for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, CoS for Rep. Bobby Bright, CoS for Rep. Jim Matheson, Clerk for House Rules Cmte.16 filingsthrough 2026
Peter FiseTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Health Counsel for Sen. Cmte on Finance, Health Counsel for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Staff Assistant for House Cmte on Oversight & Government Reform14 filingsthrough 2026
Cynthia BrownForbes-TateCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Stupak, 1993-1994; Leg Director, Rep. Kind, 1999-
2002; Chief of Staff, Rep. Kind, 2003-200913 filingsthrough 2021
Francesca MccraryForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Elijah Cummings (2016-2017); Professional Staff, House Oversight Reform Committee (2016-2016)13 filingsthrough 2021
Laura FriedelTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg. Asst., Sen. Zell Miller, Leg. Dir., Sen. Richard Shelby, Clerk, Staff Dir., Sen. Appropriations Committee11 filingsthrough 2025
Elizabeth GreerCauthen Forbes & WilliamsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Allen Boyd10 filingsthrough 2012
Parick Braerton CarrollTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Leg Asst. Rep. Ray LaHood, Leg Dir. Rep. Kevin Yoder, PSM Senate Appropriations Cmte.9 filingsthrough 2026
Wesley Ryan WelchCauthen Forbes & Williams6 filingsthrough 2009
Linda E TarplinTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Sp. Asst. to the Pres. for Leg. Affairs; Dep. Asst. Sec. for Leg. - HHS5 filingsthrough 2015
HARVEY E CAUTHEN jrCauthen Forbes & Williams5 filingsthrough 2009
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus ; ; Deputy Asst, Special Asst, Deputy Director EOP4 filingsthrough 2014
Zachary WilliamsForbes-Tate3 filingsthrough 2014
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-Tate3 filingsthrough 2014
Jeff ReczekTarplin, Downs & Young, LLCCovered position: Dir. CDC Washington, Professional Staff Sen. Appropriations Cmte, Program Examiner OMB, Program Analyst Dept. of Transportation2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 20 of 28 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
