20 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Jan 23, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$930K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$930K
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.
Health Issues
HCR
15 filings
$680K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 62 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.Con.Res. 112112th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 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: millennium-pharmaceuticals-inc.
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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.
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
14 filings
$700K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
10 filings
$500K 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.
S. 610111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 717111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1038110th CongressAccess to Life-Saving Medicine Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1956110th CongressPatient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5629110th CongressPathway for Biosimilars Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1505110th CongressAffordable Biologics for Consumers Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1695110th CongressBiologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2029110th CongressPhysician Payments Sunshine Act of 20074 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.
Podesta Group, Inc.
6 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adv. Sen. Menendez; ED, House Demo Caucus6 filingsthrough 2010
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Exec. Dir., Congressional Black Caucus6 filingsthrough 2010
Moses MercadoOgr6 filingsthrough 2009
Gordon TaylorOgr6 filingsthrough 2009
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
