17 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Feb 1, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$770K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$770K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$770K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$530K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 855111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 616111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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: methodist-hospital-system.
1 filing
$40K 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
Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009
2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3258110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1216112th CongressTo amend the Public Health Service Act to convert funding for graduate medical education in qualified teaching health centers from direct appropriations to an authorization of appropriations.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3800111th 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.
6 filings
through 2011
Jennifer TaylorVan Scoyoc Associates6 filingsthrough 2009
